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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/thanks-to-mom-and-fitness-i-became-who-i-am-today/">Thanks to Mom and Fitness, I Became Who I Am Today</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 11, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Caroline Shannon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">When I was 13, I went on my first long distance run. My mother was on her way out the door, and when she said, “Wanna come?” I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Sure!” It was awful – just complete torture. I had never felt my guts churn like that before. My legs were begging me to walk, and every sensible part of my brain was telling me that, well, this kind of activity just didn’t make sense. The only thing that got me through it was my mom. She reassured me over and over again – throughout all the huffing, puffing, moaning and groaning – that I could make it through that hellish run. And I did. Similar to my mom when she started running in college, I haven’t stopped running –…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/thanks-to-mom-and-fitness-i-became-who-i-am-today/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/thanks-to-mom-and-fitness-i-became-who-i-am-today/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/thanks-to-mom-and-fitness-i-became-who-i-am-today/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/thanks-to-mom-and-fitness-i-became-who-i-am-today/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a><br /><br /> </P>