![]() ![]() She now has a goal to run in all 50 states and she’s done 11 so far. “It was super cold!”Īfter getting called out by a friend, she next agreed to sign up for her first half marathon, The Flying Pirate, which encourages you to sport your best pirate-themed costume! The running bug really took over from there. Her first “real race”, she says, was the 2012 Raleigh Turkey Trot, an 8K, Thanksgiving-themed race. She started with a couple of 5Ks to get used to racing. Over the following year, she worked out to lose weight but, she says, she still didn’t really push herself. “It took me an hour and some change to finish,” says Taj, “but then I thought, ‘When I come back to this trail, I want to be able to run it.’” ![]() At the beginning of her new running journey, on a three-mile trail near Duke University, she found herself struggling. ![]()
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