Erin Kilroy

In 2011 I was obsessed with the idea of getting a sub-3 at Boston. It was all that I could think about and about 6 weeks before the race I started having a lot of pain in my legs. I went to PT and tried to do everything I could but eventually found out that I had femoral stress fractureS. Those fractures happened because I was undereating and overexercising. I thought how I was training and fueling myself would make me faster but instead, it led to not having a period and being injured ALL of the time. I had a bone scan done at the time and found out that I had Osteopenia and was nearing Osteoporosis. I was heartbroken over not being able to go to Boston that year (I cried for days) but the injuries were just what I needed to get on the road to giving my body what it needed—> more food, more rest, and doing what it took to get my period back.

On that final stretch of Boyleston this last Monday I had the biggest smile on my face the entire time. I was going to get that sub-3 at Boston that I had dreamed about for so many years. It was mine. After years of hard work, treating my body so much better, and having babies I was finally there.
I was living the dream that I had 11 years earlier with a healthy body and it was so much better than I could have ever imagined.