“I hope Bridget’s Olympic Trials experience will be as wonderful and satisfying as mine was for me.”
Zapata’s self-assurance has always been backed by one unique role model: her mother, Bonnie, who ran in the very first
. Still, getting to Trials wasn’t a sure shot for Zapata, despite having elite marathoner genes in her blood; it took a lot of hard work, tough love, and humbling race experiences to nail that sweet OTQ.Growing up, Zapata was no stranger to the running scene. Raised just outside the Bay Area of California, she saw Bonnie and her dad, Daryl, head out for runs all the time.
“Running was their community,” she said. “My mom and her friends always ran. That’s what moms did—moms went running.”Her parents regularly brought Zapata to their adult cross-country competitions, and she watched both of her sisters run in high school. Yet while she was surrounded by the sport from a very young age, Zapata never felt pressured to follow in her mother’s footsteps. This was by design..
Zapata did run a little bit in middle school and high school, but she also did plenty of “other stuff,” like soccer, , basketball, tennis, and even ski-racing. Yet, her predisposition for running was clear: When she had to run in other sports for punishment or conditioning, the movement came easily. “That was the part I was good at,” she said.will take you through everything you need to know to get started, step by step]
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