A Colorado woman, who was born and raised in Cromwell, is set to run in two marathons in less than a week.<\/p>\n
One of those is the Boston Marathon, which is next Monday.<\/p>\n
After finishing her first 26-mile run in Boston, Erica Kelleher Rasmussen will then go to Europe for the London Marathon, just six days later.<\/p>\n
\u00a0All of this, after dealing with a pregnancy scare, and other health-related issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne day, I saw obesity and high risk circled,\u201d Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n
Seven years ago, she got a wake-up call that would change her life forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pregnant with my daughter. We had a pretty scary pregnancy. And there was one day where the doctor said she didn’t have a heartbeat,” Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, her daughter turned out to be a healthy kid. Rasmussen and her husband now have two kids.<\/p>\n
But that spark was all she needed to create a new lifestyle.<\/p>\n
“I really started by taking ownership of my food and nutrition and understanding nutrition better…then I started moving more and started working out,\u201d Rasmussen said.<\/p>\n
\u00a0But it didn\u2019t end there. Initially, her goal was to run a race in all 50 states.<\/p>\n
“Then that led to saying, why not try a half marathon? And the day I finished a half marathon, I punched my ticket to the New York City Marathon and ran that in 2023,” she said.<\/p>\n
From there, she would complete the Berlin and Chicago marathons two weeks apart.<\/p>\n
And now she is prepping for her first Boston Marathon next week, followed by the London Marathon less than a week later.<\/p>\n
\u201cSix years ago, I couldn\u2019t get up a flight of stairs without being winded,” Rasmussen said. “And so now to be running two marathons in six days is really exciting, but it took a lot of work to get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0She told us she has lost about 100 pounds since starting her fitness journey.<\/p>\n
Rasmussen hopes her story can inspire others to take action in whatever goal they want to achieve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will do my best. I’ll have fun. And I will finish,” Rasmussen said. “I\u2019m determined.”<\/p>\n
She won’t be running only for herself. All of her events are for charities. <\/p>\n
She will run for the Boston Medical Center and VICTA in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Colorado woman, who was born and raised in Cromwell, is set to run in two marathons in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,18034,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-30153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cromwell","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114358875887028337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}