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When Nadira Talayee first started running at the age of 14, it wasn’t on the track at school or in the local park. It was in a secure outside area under the cover of night—the only way a young woman in Kabul, Afghanistan, could safely exercise.
“I had to wake up at 4 a.m., and we couldn’t turn on the lights or play music in the car [on the way to the run] so as not to attract attention,” Talayee tells Outside Run. “But those mornings gave me a chance to see another part of my city and spend time with other girls in similar situations. As Afghan women, we’re strangers in our own cities and our own country.”
A recent graduate of Smith College in Massachusetts, where she was co-president of the running club, Talayee moved to the United States in 2019 to study. Since then, the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan has deteriorated dramatically.