*Spoiler Alert* I signed up for my first marathon 🏃🏻‍♀️ // On July 1, I ran six miles for the first time in more than a month after a bunch of PT work. That night, I heard the news that my father had tragically passed away. It was a trying month of exhaustion, travel back and forth home and grief. However, slow running has helped me heal. Some days, the time since Juiy 1 feels like years of pain, other times like just minutes have passed. I have also worked to give myself grace: I am slower than I was and I just don’t have it in me during some runs (obvious by the screenshots). Running has helped ground me, and the therapeutic elements of it have gotten me back to half marathon shape (ran 13.3 last weekend) and, soon, marathon shape. #slowrunning #zone2running #marathontraining #runningthroughgrief