Mysterious Ways: Miracle at Mile 10 – Guideposts

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C’mon, Kathy, keep going. My legs burned with every stride, sweat dripped down my face as I ran outside in the scorching Florida heat. The desolate country road ahead of me seemed endless. How long had I been out here? Was I making good time? Would I really be ready to run a marathon? I had no way of knowing. I was completely lost without my training partner—my hot pink iPod, ruined on my last run thanks to an unexpected rainstorm.

My 50 th birthday was coming up, and my daughter and I had decided to celebrate the milestone with 26.2 miles of sweat and tears—the Disney Marathon. We lived in different cities, so we had to train separately. The hardest thing to learn was how to run at a sustainable pace, and I’d relied on my iPod’s tracking app to help me stick to my target times. Now I was on my own.

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