Twenty-two years ago, Hunter didn’t know if she’d ever walk again. Now, she’s training for Boston in September, with a fresh perspective.
healed up, she remembers snowshoeing for two hours at seven months pregnant and thinking, “I might be able to run again.” Five weeks after giving birth, she began walk-running, then she gradually increased her mileage. Today, Hunter’s only lingering issue from the car accident is some occasional pain in her shoulder.
Now 59, the retired Boulder, Colorado, political science teacher is training for the 2020 Boston Marathon and she’s feeling stronger than ever. Having qualified for the Olympic Marathon Trials in 1988, Hunter said she’s “come full circle,” with a renewed motivation to run and a fresh approach to training.Growing up in a suburb outside of Philadelphia, Hunter started running as a teenager to. By the time she reached her twenties and thirties, she was used to winning local races.
“If I was running enough, I didn’t have to think about all that other stuff,” she said. “[I was] in this mode of running for my life.”After decades of relying on running as her daily medicine, Hunter’s routine was shaken by another accident. In 2016, she took a nasty fall during a 27-mile trail run with her niece in Aspen and broke her arm. She walked the remaining three miles back to the trailhead while cradling her arm, which was “basically cut in half.
Eventually, she began walking again on trails, then gradually progressed to jogging. It took two years to rebuild her confidence. By 2019 she was running with her niece again—Hunter paced her during theToday, Hunter’s life—and her motivation to run—look much different. Her daughters, now 22 and 19, are becoming more independent. She and her husband of 23 years, Brian, divide their time between Boulder and Kona, Hawaii, where they spend the winter.
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