Published: May 12, 2019
It is hard enough to exercise when you are overweight, so why do people feel the need to add their judgment to the workload?
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2WMqQ0A
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“Well, what is an athlete? It’s somebody that gets up, and does what they need to do. Just because they don’t look or act like an athlete doesn’t mean they should get singled out.”
Elizabeth Ayres has been fielding lots of questions since her Facebook post about her experience at the London Marathon went viral. An official pacer for the event two weeks ago, Ayres was running with the slower “blue start” wave at the back when she saw exactly how people can be treated when they don’t fit the stereotype of a marathon runner.
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