- Anna Grace Boswell not too long ago took up working and is coaching for a half marathon
- The mother of two was getting began together with her morning run when her neighbor, Stanley, jogged over to ensure she was secure
- Unfamiliar together with her new working routine, Stanley feared Anna was in peril, she tells PEOPLE
Anna Grace Boswell is grateful for good neighbors.
In a second shared on TikTok, the brand new runner, getting ready for half marathon later this 12 months, was heading out for a morning jog when her neighbor, Stanley, began to run over towards her. Stanley made positive Boswell was okay and never working from a harmful scenario earlier than she went on together with her new morning routine.
“As many guessed within the remark part, I’m nonetheless comparatively new to the working recreation. Three weeks in the past I made a decision to run a half marathon on the finish of the 12 months and I’ve been following a coaching plan, 5 days every week, since,” she tells PEOPLE.
“I assume you’ll be able to say I’m within the honeymoon section,” she provides. “It’s nonetheless early within the relationship however I actually, actually adore it. I’m a mother to 2 toddlers, so working has been an unimaginable option to reset after a protracted day.”
“Stanley is simply an superior human being. He used to hire throughout the road and has since moved out, however he’s nonetheless round on a regular basis, as you’ll be able to clearly see within the recording. So regardless that he now not lives throughout the road, I’ll at all times consider him as my neighbor,” she explains.
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After he approached her throughout her current run, “I used to be shocked when he requested if I used to be okay as a result of in my thoughts, I regarded very cool,” she admits. “I had on my working vest, sizzling pink shorts, and my favourite trainers. I used to be feeling myself.”
Laughing, she provides, “He humbled me for positive! However he’s such a real man. I knew he solely had pure intentions.”
Whereas Boswell wasn’t anticipating it, she is touched by the truth that individuals like Stanley are looking for her security.
“At the moment, I feel you’ll be able to’t let your guard down. There’s an excessive amount of at stake,” she says. “I am so grateful I reside in an space the place neighbors have one another’s backs.”
As a girl who runs alone, Boswell “appears like I am at all times wanting over my shoulder as a result of higher secure than sorry.”
“I can’t inform you the aid it brings me to know that I reside in an space the place my neighbors are watching my again, too,” she provides. “The world wants extra Stanleys!”
Boswell’s TikTok in regards to the second has amassed greater than 11 million views as individuals applaud Stanley’s kindhearted methods.
“The response has been hysterical. Half the Web is obsessive about Stanley — and rightfully so — and the opposite half has been roasting me within the nicest and most hilarious means doable. It’s simply too humorous,” she shares.
Boswell needed to wait a number of days to inform Stanley about their viral video, however he was “an important sport” when she did. They’ve since filmed two more TikToks collectively, too.
“Stanley is a DJ and had a reasonably busy weekend after I posted the video, so I used to be very nervous somebody was going to inform him he went viral earlier than I had an opportunity to indicate him the video myself,” Boswell shares. “However after I lastly was capable of present him the video, he bought a extremely large kick out of it.”