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Molly Mirhashem is used to working round in circles — actually.
Six days every week, Ms. Mirhashem runs close to her residence in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. A lot of her weekly mileage takes place on the identical, roughly 3.5-mile loop of a close-by park. Her coaching will turn out to be useful: This weekend, she is working the Buffalo Marathon in upstate New York. It will likely be her ninth time gutting out 26.2 miles since she first caught the marathon bug in 2017.
Ms. Mirhashem, an editor on the Nicely desk masking health, got here to The New York Occasions final month from Exterior Journal, the place she spent eight years assigning and enhancing well being and wellness articles, amongst different tasks.
One in all her targets at The Occasions is to achieve readers who’re dabbling in health, however need somewhat additional steering.
“There are novices, who we regularly communicate to, after which there are specialists searching for the tiniest, marginal acquire of their marathon time,” she mentioned in a current interview. “I believe there’s room to serve these readers within the center floor.”
Right here, Ms. Mirhashem shares what motivates her to hit the bottom working — in her new job, that’s — and the largest challenges of the health beat. These are edited excerpts.
Have been you at all times serious about health?
I’m a lifelong runner. I began working in youth observe and area, and caught with it by means of highschool. I ran observe and cross-country in faculty, after which tried marathons after that.
