Julia Sizek
QT: 2:41:58
Residence: Oakland, CA
Hometown: Oakwood, OH
College: University of Chicago
Age on Race Day: 28
Affiliation: Strawberry Canyon Track Club
Qualifying Race: Bank of America Chicago Marathon 2019
Marathon Best: 2:41:58
Social handles: Instagram - @runthedesert
Favorite post-race indulgence: Beer
Favorite breakfast: Pancakes
Of Note:
- Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at University of California - Berkeley
- Spent over a year in California's Mojave Desert doing research for dissertation, including stints where she was more than 50 miles from the nearest grocery store with early morning long runs on sandy dirt roads in the middle of nowhere
- Avid cross-trainer because of stress fracture history; in college taught self to read the New Yorker while on the elliptical
- 4-time All-American, from anchor on DMR to 10,000 meters
