Last year at this time, Chris Bailey ’12 and ’15 was making his final preparations to run in the 2015 Boston Marathon. Despite a less-than-ideal weather forecast, his lofty goal of completing the 26.2-mile distance in under 2 hours and 30 minutes seemed quite doable.
After all, Bailey, a former student-athlete in the Honors College and currently the associate director of recruitment and marketing in the Honors College, had just won the Charleston Half Marathon three months earlier. And about a year before Boston, he had won the 2014 Wrightsville Beach Marathon, setting a new course record as well as a personal record with a time of 2 hours and 28 minutes.
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