Kara on Training with Shalane. I wish I had a training partner like this.

What have you learned from training with Shalane?
Shalane never seems to have a bad training day—she always looks so good. Sometimes we’ll be running together and I’ll be struggling and I when I finally say something, she’s like “Oh, yeah, I’ve been hurting for the past half-hour.” She just doesn’t voice it—she just doesn’t express doubt. She may think it, but she doesn’t vocalize it. Everyone is human and everyone has doubts. She’s not a robot, she gets tired, too. But she stays in control of it.