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Sara Rehm

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“when your legs get tired, run with your heart.” ❤️
📍Pittsburgh
🏃‍♀️Marathoner x11

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Meow meow meow meow….

If you don’t understand what that means, this post ain’t for you.

#meow

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Visited a postcard today.

#bavaria #germany #castle #neuschwansteincastle

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Breakfast

#munich #oktoberfest

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#medalmonday #berlinmarathon

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sehr cooler Zug Hauptbahnhof

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Local attraction....
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#seattle #gum #travel

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more Mt Rainer

Playing catch on pics from the past few months

#pnw #mtrainer #naturephotography

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For #globalrunningday , I wanna thank running…

Thank you for the new friends.
Thank you for showing me new places.
Thank you for the mental clarity.
Thank you for letting me feel all my emotions.
Thank you for the challenge, physical and mental.
Thank you for pushing me in so many ways.
Thank you for teaching me how strong I am.
Thank you for showing me how amazing my body is.
Thank you for all you have helped me.
Thank you for all the bonding you’ve supported.
Thank you for being my escape when I needed it.
Thank you for the smiles, the tears, the joys, the frustrations…

Thank you Running 🏃‍♀️

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My first run with @cityofbridgesrunclub was sometime in July of 2022. I was so nervous I nearly cancelled my registration… I ran 8 miles and was sore for 3 days… I could have never imagined they would become so important for me and help me become the person I am today, both in running and in life ❤️

So many morning runs. So many snowy. Hot, rainy, cold, humid miles. So many hills. They watched me, cheered for me, supported me, helped me from day 1 ❤️

I’ll miss every single person in this group… this isn’t a goodbye, it’s a see you later ❤️ (and maybe a reason to host a group run in Madrid)

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April was very bittersweet…

On April 1st I found out I had about 6 weeks to pack my things, sell all my furniture, and leave the country… and my world seemed to be catching fire and burning down… I’ve wanted to come to the US since I was a child… I worked the hardest I ever had to get into college and come to play golf at my dream school… I did everything I could to find a job and secure a visa… and it felt like it was for nothing…

To be in peak week for the marathon I’ve been training for and dreaming of for months when this news came in was challenging to say the least… I broke down on the track during a workout. I was losing sleep and appetite. I cried every day. I didn’t want to run it… but when race day came, when the weekend came around and I was able to step away from my sad boxed up apartment, I focused on one thing. One goal. One task. The marathon. And that showed me a lot…

The marathon was honestly my saving grace, not just because I achieved the goal I set out to accomplish. When all else was going to shit, I could control my attitude towards this race. When all else felt like it was crashing down, I could focus on my work for this build. When everything was hard, I had friends around me to help. When everything else seemed out of control, I focused on what I could control. And it worked out. It turned out ok… and that is life…

It may seem rough. It may seem terrible. It may seem like there is no way out… but there is. Somehow, someday, in some way, it will workout… right now I still have a hard time seeing it like that, but I just need to keep believing it will ❤️

May will be a hard month… so I’ll be taking it one day at a time, and I’ll be giving myself grace knowing I’ll struggle… but life isn’t always rainbows and sunshine, and the brightest sun shines after the darkest storms…

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