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Pregnant Runner Completes Chicago Marathon – Then Delivers Baby

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Amber Miller Gives Birth After Chicago Marathon

Truly amazing.

Amber Miller accomplished two monumental feats this weekend.

Days from her due date, the 27-year-old joined 45,000 other runners to participate in Sunday’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon and then gave birth to a baby girl named June hours later.

Miller, an avid runner, said she signed up for the 26.2-mile race before finding out she was pregnant. She said she never expected to finish the race.

“I was having a conversation with my parents and said, ‘You know what? I have no plans of actually finishing,'” she told reporters at Central DuPage Hospital this morning. “I was planning on running half, skipping to the end, then walking across the finish line.”

But Miller and her husband started running, and just kept going. They ran part of the race and walked the second half as her contractions started. It took the couple 6.5 hours to finish. She said she grabbed something to eat and the two headed to the hospital.

At 7 pounds, 13 ounces, baby June entered the world at 10:29 p.m. Sunday, just hours after her parents crossed the finish line.

Congratulations and I guess this answers the question as to whether YOU should train for a marathon!

Just do it!

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