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"What if 26.2 miles through your own capital became your story?"
There is something quietly ridiculous and completely brilliant about running through the streets you normally take a Luas through. By mile twenty you will hit the wall, question every decision you have ever made, and then somehow keep going anyway. That is the bit nobody warns you about — and the bit you never forget. Crossing the finish line on Nassau Street, legs wrecked, strangers cheering, tells you something about yourself that no career test or Leaving Cert result ever could. You find out you are a person who finishes things.
Méabh (27), Sligo — works in accounts at a solicitors' office, does park run in Strandhill most Saturdays
I'd done the Strandhill parkrun maybe forty times and genuinely thought that counted as training.
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