Weeks of 4 a.m. treadmill sessions paid off when Valeria Curtis won the 2019 Fargo Marathon in a time of 2:43:08, cinching her spot in Atlanta in 2020.
know, it takes a huge amount of work, grit, and unwavering commitment to make that a reality. For Curtis, achieving an OTQ required a mindset shift from ordinary runner to competitive marathoner, a careful balance between family and running, and weeks of hardAt the time of the 2016 Trials, Curtis was a 3:07 marathoner who didn’t dream of being fast enough to be on the 2020 start line.
From 2013 to 2016, she slowly began running and racing again, but it wasn’t until she watched the Trials that she really became inspired to step up her“I was so pumped up after watching that,” she said. “I thought, ‘What if I got to be among one of those people, one of the best in the country to line up and be there in person?’”Because her marathon PR in 2016 was more than 20 minutes slower than the standard, Curtis was afraid to share her goal out loud.
When she spoke her goal aloud for the first time to her husband, Chris, a member of the U.S. Air Force, he quieted her doubts. “He told me, ‘What are you talking about? You could totally do that! You’re a hard worker,’” she said.Curtis began training under coach
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