Even if chasing her athletic ambitions were only a matter of physical ability, odds would already be stacked against Zainab. For two months leading up to Afghanistan’€™s first official marathon in Bamiyan, her fitness regime was limited to jogging laps in her family’s small backyard because running outside was unsafe. Even when she did so, she would experience children were stoning her, people shouting bad words like “prostitutes, why don’t you stay at home? You are destroying Islam€™.” In October 2015 she became the first and only afghan woman to complete the first official marathon in Afghanistan