![]() “I built my proposal on long distance running cultures and training styles because I fell in love with the lifestyle I had in college.”Īnd so began Wade-Firth’s running pilgrimage to parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. “After college, I wrote a proposal about how I would spend my dream year and how I would pursue it,” says Wade-Firth about her application for the fellowship, which promotes purposeful travel and is granted yearly to 40 graduating seniors across the United States. ![]() The documentation of her year of running abroad is now bound in Run The World: My 3,500-Mile Journey Through Running Cultures Around the Globe, a must-read memoir for runners, published in 2016. ![]() In July 2012, fresh out of Rice University, the Dallas native travelled the world on a Watson Fellowship to immerse herself in multiple running cultures across countries. The 30-year-old is surely the most travelled entrant on the race’s elite start list. It’s hard to believe that this Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon will be Becky Wade-Firth’s first race in Canada. ![]() ![]() Globetrotting author and elite American marathoner Becky Wade-Firth is ready for the race of her life in Toronto ![]()
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