Victoria Phillipi - What Defines Us
Victoria Phillipi is a great runner, with 16 marathons under her belt, you’d think that she has been a runner since she could walk. Well, that’s not quite the case for her. At age 16, Victoria wasn’t the runner she is today. Victoria was in an all-girls gym class and every day before they started whatever they were scheduled to do that day, they had to run an 800 around the track. No big deal right? Well Victoria, wasn’t much of a runner back then. She was always the last person to finish her 800 and was often ill physically for the rest of the day after. She was tired of being the last person on the track and decided to work on her running performance so that she could run like a "normal" person. It took a few years but she slowly progressed to longer and longer distances at comfortable paces, staying determined to do better and slowly starting to create an addiction to running. When she began her career in accounting, these constant attempts to better her health lead to m...