Hitch Fit Living Magazine Volume 2 - September/October 2015 | Page 45

Hitch Fit client Qualifies for BOSTON MARATHON!
Hitch Fit superstar transformation Jill is an avid runner, at 50 years young she did her first Hitch Fit online plan,
became leaner, stronger, shed 27 pounds and ran her FASTEST marathon ever!
Fast forward and Jill is still running strong! She SMASHED her time goals to qualify for the Boston Marathon
by 14 minutes!! WOW!! Awesome job Jill!!!
Jill’s Message to Diana:
“I had to take a minute and pull up this email from December where I initially reached out to you before signing
up for a Hitch Fit program. You told me that if I took time off of running and completed the program, I would
be even faster and stronger with my marathons. Looking back, I can’t believe my rigid mind was willing to have
faith in you and something new, but boy were you more than right!
I think I told you I had it on my radar to possibly run a marathon in
late May as a “test” to see where I was at and then start my Fitness
Model Round 2 program. After that I would be training hard to try
to qualify for the Boston Marathon again. I ran less than half the
miles for this marathon than any of my others and knew it could be
a complete disaster. I didn’t sign up for the race until Saturday
when I saw the weather forecast was perfect for Sunday and was on
the starting line 12 hours later. Well I wasn’t supposed to run that
fast in my “test” run! Yes, I dreamed big that it could happen, but if
I did it, it wasn’t supposed to be 14 minutes under the time I need
to get accepted into the Boston Marathon…no one does that! And
it was pretty darn easy! By mile 5, I knew I had it and just kept
pushing it. At mile 20, I certainly felt the fatigue in my legs, but I
wanted it so bad it was easy to keep pushing on. There were some
pretty steep hills and I just flew up them. There were times I
thought I had wings I felt so strong. Averaging an 8:35 pace for
26.2 miles as a 50 year old is the coolest thing ever for me. I will
never be able to thank you enough!