🎵 say it’s been a long... six.... months..... 🎶
A half-year who today, 11.3.19, I ran the New York City Marathon, my first race ever! I was raising money for the charter school where I work with special education youth of color in an underserved Brooklyn neighborhood. I was training through a grueling knee injury (not to mention working full time and studying for the GRE), but whenever I was listening to Taylor, the laps around Prospect Park Lake seemed to melt away.
On the actual day of the race, I was listening to one of my all time favorite Taylor songs when I crossed the finish line: Out of the Woods. It’s a song I have a difficult time describing my relationship with, but it has seen me through some of the darkest and simultaneously most triumphant moments of my life. Finishing that race with Taylor at my side, and knowing I was finally out of the woods - all the fears of ruining my knee, the frustration of missing goal times and paces because of it, the stress of having to fit four training runs a week into my already hectic schedule, not to mention the sheer unapologetic pain of the race itself - is one of the most empowering sensations I’ve ever known. Thank you, @taylorswift, always. You’re there for me in ways you’ll never know. 💕🏅🏃🏼♀️
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