The headline implies she went from zero to hero after quitting TV, but she'd already submitted her PhD thesis and was already close to her marathon time goal. I

The headline implies she went from zero to hero after quitting TV, but she'd already submitted her PhD thesis and was already close to her marathon time goal. I don't think TV was the difference. Besides, the implication is TV is some morally bankrupt mind-killer, but there's plenty of intelligent programming out there, not everything is "The Bachelor."