Makenna Myler: Former BYU runner, new mother goes viral on TikTok, Reddit

To say it’s been an adventurous 18 months for former BYU runner Makenna Myler would be a pretty big understatement.

As reported by news sites around the world, she got pregnant early last year and then ran a mile in five minutes and 25 seconds on October 10 – just 10 days before their daughter Kenny Lou was born.

That spring, Myler ran 400 … miles … a month and started racing in April to qualify for Olympic tests. After a few unsuccessful attempts, she qualified for the 10k at the end of May.

At the exams a month later, Myler missed the Olympics, finishing 14th out of 44 runners, but less than three weeks later, on July 14, she signed a contract to run professionally for Asics.

She made her professional debut on July 23 at the Deseret News Half Marathon, where she broke the course record on the way to victory.

All of that brings us to this week. Myler’s husband Mike created and posted a TikTok video compiling clips from the above events over the past 18 months and it has gone viral on social media.

The video had over 977,000 likes on TikTok on Saturday (full views of the video are inaccessible), and on top of that, the video was posted on Reddit and landed on the website’s front page on Saturday.

This post had about 69,000 upvotes on Saturday afternoon.

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