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Inside the Life of a Teenage Professional Runner

Alana Hadley is like any other 19-year-old college student. She studies for exams, hangs out with friends in her dorm and eats questionable food from the campus dining hall.

But there is one key thing that makes Hadley stand out from her college peers: She's also a professional runner with a personal best marathon time of 2:38:34.

Between college classes at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and daily training runs, Hadley gave us a look into her life as a teenage pro runner.

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