A Lesson in Patience

Published by the TCS NYC Marathon on October 21, 2015

Anyone looking for motivation to stick with something need look no further than Laura Thweatt.  

Thweatt, 26, will make her 26.2-mile debut on November 1 as a top American contender.  

It’s been a successful year for the rising star: She’s the 2015 USATF cross country champion; she finished 29th (second American) at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships; she was the runner-up at the USA 15K Championships; she placed fourth at the USA 10-Mile Championships; and she was victorious at the Humana Rock ‘n’ Roll Virginia Beach Half-Marathon.  

Thank goodness she decided not to quit back in 2011.  

An all-state runner for Durango High School in Colorado, Thweatt (rhymes with “sweet”) graduated from the University of Colorado among the school’s top 10 at five distances. “I would do it again in a heartbeat,” she says.