And then there are all those runners who have contacted her personally to thank her. The nearly 3,000 likes and close to 200 comments on her post include messages from elite runners like Kate Grace and Kara Goucher. And she’s shared it to thunderous response, more than she could have imagined. It’s a lesson that took her two difficult years, a serious injury, and a rocky comeback to learn. That she raced this well in her new, sturdier body belies the notion that only rail-thin athletes succeed in distance running, she said. Back in love with running again, a feeling she’d lost.Īnd in news that may shock even those who saw the side-by-side snapshots on Schulist’s feed, the 5-foot-10 runner is now 20 pounds heavier, she told Runner’s World in an interview Wednesday. This year, as a redshirt senior at MSU, she finished 12th at nationals in 20:07.Īn Instagram post the two-time All-American wrote on Monday, which was widely shared, tells the story of what happened in between-and why the second performance, 12 seconds off the first, signaled a far larger victory. In 2014, Michigan State University sophomore Rachele Schulist ran 19:54.30 for 6K to finish fourth at the NCAA cross-country championships, leading her team through an undefeated season to its first-ever women’s national title. This article was written by Cindy Kuzma and provided by our partners at Runner's World.
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