"Your Story, Your Why" - Jennifer Herring - Episode 18

Podcast: Marathon Running Podcast by Marathon Journal · Marathon Journal (Letty Lundquist, Ryan Lundquist)

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

In this inspiring episode of Your Story, Your Why, host Letty Lundquist sits down with computer scientist and 46-time marathoner Jennifer Herring. Jennifer shares her journey living with optic atrophy—a visual impairment that leaves her vision between 20/200 and 20/400—and explains how she navigates road races and crowds through a perpetual blur. She reflects on her early running days in Central Park with the New York Road Runners, qualifying for Boston on her debut attempt, and setting fast personal bests of 3:22 in New York and 3:26 in Boston. Jennifer opens up about the deep emotional purpose that drives her...