My middle school experience was hard in all the familiar ways: friendship breakups, tween insecurities and the classic diary entries that “nobody could possibly understand me”. One silver lining, though? When I joined my school’s cross-country team and fell in love with running.
Since then, running has been a big part of my life. While I’m no three-time marathon runner, I regularly log upwards of 20 miles per week and am currently training for a half marathon. I’ve even joined one of New York City’s run clubs (no, not the dating one). And nowadays, I still preach about the benefits of an early-morning jog and the feeling of a runner’s high (I swear it isn’t a myth).
