CHARLOTTE — Dreia Hannibal has been training for the Around the Crown race for the last few months. She used to run more before giving birth to her training partner, 4-year-old Joshua.
Now, with the help of peer pressure from a coworker, she’ll be running her first-ever 10K.
“A friend of mine was like, ‘Hey, do the race with me’ and I went ahead and paid. And then my friend says, ‘Hey, I’m not going to make it.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, OK, well, I’m committed,’” Hannibal said. “And so a coworker was like, ‘So you’re just going to jump straight into a 10K? Have you done a 5K?’ I said, ‘No, I haven’t done a 5K but we’ll see Sunday if I could do the 10.’ So I’m here.”
>> How she trained for the race, in the video at the top of the page.
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