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A woman wearing blue running clothing.

A woman wearing blue running clothing and white shoes running on a footpath in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

"The mental side of things will definitely be the hardest,"
Amber said.

"I was a competition swimmer, and I remember having to get out of the pool to be sick because I couldn't handle the pain,"
she said.

A blonde woman smiling with a brunette woman.

"She was crying with a heat bag on her lap … and I just remember thinking, 'I can't have anything that's as bad.'"

A short blonde runner standing next to a man in a grey jumper at the Adelaide Marathon.

"Sometimes she's in that much pain she can't even get out of bed, let alone go for a 30km run that I've set for her to do."

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