Path to 26.2 Miles

Not a runner by nature, but getting there one step at a time.👟@NYCMarathon '16, '17, '20.🏅Now training for #BostonMarathon. ✍🏼@RachelChang (IG: @pathto262)

[Rachel Chang 張舒雅 | Travel & Pop Culture Journalist @RachelChang]

The #NB5thAveMile Media Mile is such an annual highlight! Thank you to @nyrr for bringing journalists together for the media heat…and especially for having Team Freelance! This run was a tough one for me, but still happy to have beat last year’s time (and tied 2022’s time!).

[Path to 26.2 Miles @PathTo262]

How I ended up on a fourth Path to 26.2 at this year’s @bostonmarathon!

[Rachel Chang 張舒雅 | Travel & Pop Culture Journalist @RachelChang]

If you're going to defy doctors' orders, then you've got to go big! Thanks to @POPSUGAR for letting me share my story to the @bostonmarathon finish line, thanks to @Westin and @WMMajors.

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #12 (September 8): 1 mile, 9:59. Of all the days we’ve been in this heatwave, today was the first time where the moment I stepped outside, it felt like I was in a heat box. I considered…

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #11 (September 7): 1 mile, 11:16. This time I know it was not the right choice to run. At a scorching 93, not a single person outside was exerting any effort. Even the dog walkers were just standing around…

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #10 (September 6): 1 mile, 11:11. Another scorcher. Today reached a high of 94, and just before I left for my run, my Alexa popped up with a warning that air quality was questionable…

Full post: https://t.co/aOu04bcBXg #mediamile #teamfreelance

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #9 (September 5): 1 mile, 11:18. Absolutely scorching and humid. After having done my strength-training virtual class…

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #8 (September 4): 1 mile, 11:10. I do wonder if I’m overdoing it. I’m logging more runs than I did last year, albeit in a shorter amount of time…

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#NB5thAveMile Training Run #7 (September 3): 1 mile, 9:45. With the overbooked schedule I’ve found myself on these few weeks (three full-time projects on top of my regular workload), Sunday morning ended up being the only pocket of time I had…

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Training Run #6 (September 2): 1 mile, 10:08. After a 45-minute morning spin class and a walk around town to the farmers’ market, I had already clocked in almost 10K steps before today’s mile…

Full post: https://t.co/OiEn6BFGX1 #NB5thAveMile #MediaMile #TeamFreelance

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Training Run #5 (September 1): 1 mile, 10:21. New month, new attitude? Not quite. It used to take me forever to get out the door…

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Training Run #4 (August 31): 1 mile, 10:32. Feeling guilty I didn’t officially run my mile yesterday, but that’s because I was out the door reporting for a project for 12 hours, driving 250 miles and walking 17,141 steps…

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Training Run #3 (August 29): 1 mile, 10:50. Third run’s a charm? Not really. But I did feel like I could rev up to 2:30 running and 1:00 walking. I stuck religiously to that until the end, and it turns out…

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Training Run #2 (August 28): 1 mile, 10:47. That back to school feeling: I was a bit hesitant to run two days in a row, so I told myself to keep it light. I committed to the two minutes on, one off method, yet once I started going, I…

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Training Run #1 (August 27): 1 mile, 11:26. Admittedly, I have not been in the best space, physically or mentally, but I’m grateful to have the @nyrr’s #NB5thAveMile to look forward to. More than two years ago, doctors told me never to run…

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Week 6 (September 11): 1.02 miles, 8:43. What a rush! Nearly a year late to post this 🫣, but I completely shocked myself coming from such a tumultuous journey to finishing under 9! There’s just something so energetic about the thrill…

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Week 5: Running is balancing. Of course it is: balancing on one foot and then the other. Yet I have no balance as I train for the @nyrr #NB5thAveMile.

Full post: https://t.co/Kg6CjYG640 @nyrrnews #MediaMile

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Week 4: When a fairly last-minute trip to Amsterdam came up, I crammed in a run in just before I left for the airport. Perhaps that wasn't the kind of pre-trip task I needed while prepping for @nyrr's #NB5thAveMile.

Full post: https://t.co/3cfW60wQtT @nyrrnews #mediamile

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Week 3: When you're told you'll never run again, every run is a fresh start. That fear you'll quickly be in pain is always there as I prep for the @nyrr #NB5thAveMile.

Full post: https://t.co/jby0fMpy9L @nyrrnews #mediamile

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Week 2: Getting back into the game is never easy, but it's especially a mental challenge when your body rings the alarm with pain.

If you told me to run the @nyrr #NB5thAveMile today, I could push through it no problem.

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Week 1: One. Just one mile. In 5 weeks, I'm signed up [for] @NYRR's #NB5thAveMile—and while I ran it in 2019 for time, this time it's all about distance. After all, I'm not quite going the distance these days.

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