Bridget Belyeu’s marathon PR of 2:31:00 puts her among the top-20 women who will take on Atlanta.
lining up in Atlanta next February—which is an impressive feat for any runner, but especially for one who put running on the back burner throughout graduate school and who’s now juggling 100-mile weeks with a full-time work schedule.,” Belyeu said. “It took a while to train my body to handle the mileage and get used to running at odd hours, but it’s just my routine now.”Running wasn’t always a priority for Belyeu.
“I was planning to play soccer in college,” Belyeu said. “But once I got to a higher level in soccer, the sport got more political and the girls got meaner, so going into a college soccer program sounded less appealing. I realized I could have more potential in running.”After graduating from high school in 2006, Belyeu enrolled at the University of Georgia , where she joined the cross-country and track teams as a walk-on.
“I got hurt pretty quickly,” Belyeu said. “Since I’d always played soccer, I wasn’t used to maintaining that mileage for so many seasons.” At the end of her first semester, she suffered a stress reaction in her tibia that sidelined her for outdoor track.grew stronger and smarter as a runner. She lowered her 5K time from 18:55 to 18:34 as a red-shirt sophomore, then to 17:01 as a red-shirt junior.
“I really started to love long-distance races in college,” she said. “Long runs were always my favorite workout. By the time I graduated, marathons were on my mind.”Once Belyeu graduated from UGA in 2011 with a biology degree, she wasn’t ready to hang up her spikes. That summer, she raced the 10,000 meters at the USATF Outdoor National Championships, finishing 19th in a personal best time of“I thought I could keep running 70 miles per week in dental school,” Belyeu said.
She signed up for the Tobacco Road Marathon in Cary, North Carolina, in March 2013. While training for it, she did an 18-mile run at 6:40 pace, which gave her a confidence boost. The marathon itself proved harder than she anticipated—she had to stop and walk around mile 20—but she still finished first overall for women, crossing the line in
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