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Running to me is freedom. It makes everything fall into the right place, it puts me into a state of mind where everything seems possible. Actually, anything IS possible, that I know by now. I was not really a fat or obese child, but I have always been the person in school who finished the lap on the running track last, I was the person nobody wanted on their volleyball team and during the years in school I had to take quite a lot of spite and malice for being not so slender, athletic or sporty. I was only in third grade, when my teacher told me that I am simply not a sporty person and that I just had to go with it: „Some are sporty, others are not, so you won’t get better than a C anyway.“ Sometimes I would really like to talk to that teacher, Mrs. Schneider, who ironically wrote into my Schoolfriends-Book that the thing she wishes to accomplish in life is finishing a marathon, and tell her that by now I have done so already. Twice. So what has changed? I take comfort in the idea, ...