Brandy Smith
Number of years on SSSMST: Five!
Hometown: Fremont, OH
Currently living in: Cleveland! (Kamm’s corner area, nice and close to the RR metro park!)
What’s the best advice you could give? Don’t try to control what you can’t control.
What’s your favorite book? Anything nutrition/food industry or self-help related. I’m a sucker for trying to be better.
What’s an interesting tidbit from your past? I was cut from every team I tried out for in middle school!
What’s your claim to fame? I have been on the cover of a magazine! (It was the Case magazine while I was in graduate school. But, I was “rectuited” after being in a photo taken for my research lab)
Tell a little bit about yourself: I’ve been very fortunate to have been on the SSSMST team since inception, crossing a lot of finish lines and making a lot of great memories. I started as a runner, with my first official race registration being the 2002 Columbus Marathon (hard to believe it’s 10 years now!!). I started the training in Cincinnati while I finished up my bachelor’s degree, and finished it in Cleveland when I started my master’s degree. My life in Cleveland therefore started with running, and naturally I made like-minded friends. I found my “home” in Cleveland to be running through the metroparks and all around Case’s campus. I went on to run four more marathons. Finally, I’d had enough running (including two stress fractures!) and followed my friends to the multisport world, which led me to Spin and Second Sole.
