Your Story: Seattle Fitness Magazine

Your Story

Thanks for taking part in Seattle Fitness Magazine. This piece is about your race or event, your training in Seattle and, most of all, you. Answer in your own words.

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01 Your details

Only used to contact you about your story.

Enter your email address.

Your name

Your full name, as you’d like it to appear in the story.

Enter your full name.

What’s your Instagram handle? Optional

So we can tag and credit you properly. For example, @yourname

02 About the event

Set the scene for us: what was the race, event or moment, what category or division were you in, and when did it take place?

One line is plenty. For example: Seattle Marathon, 30 to 34 age group, November 2025.

Set the scene: the event, your category and when.

How did it go? Give us your result, a finish time, placing or score if you have one. Optional

Was this your first time, or have you done it before? If you have, how did this one stack up?

Tell us if this was your first time.

Every challenge has a part that humbles you. What was the hardest part this time, and did it match what you expected going in?

Tell us the hardest part this time.

Did you have anyone alongside you or in your corner cheering? Tell us more.

Write No one if you went solo.

Tell us who was in your corner, or write No one.

03 Training in Seattle

Name names, which gyms or studios do you actually train at? Anywhere else that’s become part of your regular rhythm?

Name where you train: gyms, studios or anywhere else.

Take us through a normal week for you, how many sessions, and what each one actually looks like.

Take us through a normal training week.

How many weeks or months did you put into training specifically for this?

A rough number is fine. For example, 12 weeks.

Tell us how long you trained for this.

Was there a coach, class, or training group that made the biggest difference? Optional

If a friend in Seattle said they wanted to try your sport for the first time, where would you point them?

Tell us where you’d point a friend starting out.

04 About yourself

Take us back, how did you first get into your sport, and when was that?

Tell us how you first got into your sport.

Between work, life, and everything else, how do you actually make training fit?

Tell us how you make training fit around life.

What’s on the horizon next? Any race or date already in the diary?

If nothing is booked, say what you’re aiming at.

Tell us what’s next, even if nothing is booked.

Zoom out for a second, what matters most to you, in training or otherwise? Optional

Last one, tell us a bit about yourself, whatever you want readers to know.

Tell us a bit about yourself.

05 Before we write

Three quick ones, so the story reads the way you want.

After your full name appears once, what should the story call you?

Magazines usually switch to last names. Plenty of people prefer their first. Your call.

My first name My last name Other

What the story should call you

Pick one, or choose Other and write it in.

Can we name your family in the story? If yes, list the names we can use.

For example a partner or kids. Write "No names" if you’d rather we didn’t.

List the names we can use, or write No names.

Anything or anyone you’d rather we leave out? Optional

A person, a race, a topic. We’ll keep it out, no questions asked.

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