“Take your goals and chase the hell out of them, make yourself happy so you can be your best self for those who care about you most.” As Sammy closes out a great 2019, she moves into 2020 with lofty goals and the mindset to take them on!
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Any elite athlete will tell you that you can’t have success in running without recovery, and any person struggling with addiction will tell you that you can’t run well if you aren’t on the road to recovery. From that statement, one could conclude that recovery and running go hand in hand...Which makes the Raleigh Distance Project and Oak City Recovery Run Club a perfect match. Read on for more about this relationship and an upcoming event you don't want to miss!
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Our story has been much like “defining the relationship,” or finally making a relationship that has been around for awhile, “Facebook official.”
We - Andie, Erin, Sammy, Sarah, Rita, and Tristin, are the Raleigh Distance Project. Our mission is to bring elite running to Raleigh, creating an opportunity for collegiate and post-collegiate runners to continue pursuing their full potential in training and competition. As we move within striking distance of qualifying for Olympic Trials, US Teams, and prestigious US road marathons, we want our community to come with us. Through our personal success and improvement, we believe we will have the credibility to fulfill our other passion: to get all runners in the Triangle area excited about their own running too, one person at a time.
Read on to see how it all started.
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