Sorita Averill-Fitzgerald defines herself as an athlete. In addition to training and running multiple half marathons, marathons and triathlons, she also owns a Fleet Feet running store and participates in several running groups in her hometown of West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her athleticism, however, doesn’t just lie in the races, but also in her preparation for them. “I love setting big goals…
Read More Running is more than life to Gretchen, even more so now than ever. If you had followed her through her middle and high school track careers, you would’ve never guessed that running would be her escape from lifelong diagnoses and treatments, but that’s just what it is. Gretchen was diagnosed with adrenal cancer at just 2 years old. After 31…
Read More For many people, running is an individual sport. It’s about the number of miles, the time on the board and setting personal records. For Robin Lewis, Janna Erlien and Marcia Patton, the team comradery is what draws them to the sport and what draws them together in the causes they support. Robin was a casual runner throughout high school and college but stopped running after having two…
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Most of us take for granted being able to pull on a pair of shoes and go run or walk a couple miles. But what if one day you found that you couldn’t feel your fingers as they tied your shoes, that your feet kept scuffing the pavement despite your brain screaming at your legs to lift your knees, and…
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