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Published: 2016-05-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4PUl-HZvf8
thank you I'm gonna share with you my story of C. series and not being perfect it sounds impossible I was at my house seventy five of the one hundred mile race I've been running from nineteen hours it was midnight I was knee deep in snow are and I was almost hypothermic I do really need to eat and drink but I keep throwing everything out sassy the
defending champ had just flown by me I was in the worst place I've ever been in a race for for my crew who had more food more drinking warm because for another five thousand running away and in the finish was still another five hours from there running away I needed to sleep more than I've even needed to say before but stopping there in the snow capped
mountains would mean day for close to it I made slowly step by step through the snow and I could feel every single state like a dagger in my thighs my place says safety Rana gave me I was loving patience and full of energy and eventually after a really long slower and extremely painful downhill we come to the aid station I am the frozen grass all I
wanted was three minutes late but my crew had a warm hands all over me rubbing my leaks away rubbing my back and shoulders and having the woman sit through coke to drink after ten minutes I realized I wasn't gonna get in a fight so I took my peanut butter and jam sandwich stood up and walked slowly out of them looking back at their faces of emotion
filled with Willingham pain as I went back into the cold mountains again I wasn't hard to oblivion as much into my brief then something changed it was still really doc and freezing cold but now I could hear the chair for the birds and the rustle of the little chipmunks all around me I stopped for a bite of my sandwich and throw a few cross to little
animals her living so freakin head play in a place that was just so doc for me at that time and then up the heat we could see d'assise light shining really brightly on the cliffs the heat the impossible is about to happen I do on everything well the strength resilience determination I head look the mountains in the face pushed through the deep physical pain and mental
fatigue and went it was now or never my pacer nitrate disobey my dream for three years and I wasn't ready to let that car the moment when the sun touch my skin warming me I now understood the words of love and encouragement that might have the pace I had told me and the aid station before the sun would be up saying my body came alive I
went somewhere I just never been before mentally and physically we touched I owe the Kevin Johnson had in my bag and we went he wouldn't stop wouldn't talk we discharge silently and respectfully pass Stasi and into the next isolation when my crew where Nick speaking meet this year's there was a major commotion as they tore off through the final fifteen miles I had just a fiery
focus on the trials and the because my kids the heat I wasn't gonna get lost at that point we didn't start wouldn't talk we just chat just my break was all I had to sort of breathe out that pain and my legs with every step Mike Tyson was amazing he had soothing words ignored my grunts of agony ignored the crazy words of hallucination and just keep
me going it was then two point three miles to go we are now thirty minutes ahead of dasi but I wasn't giving up I didn't want her to catch us so we keep talking until we got them and as we approached the finish I'd tears in my eyes not only had I just finished the rice but I was about to win hydro one hundred one of
the hottest one hundred mile races in the world one week climbed equivalent of good Cleveland heights of Mount Everest twice my parents were there to share the moment with me and my crew who believed in me they understood and the look and knew what I was capable of and so I push me a little touch more Daniel was possible it was one of the moments when
I felt most empowered as a woman growing and glowing with facing Caesar is a Finnish word and way of life it is the extraordinary courage and determination in the face of adversity Caesar has encompassed everything in my life it is the people the JNA the experience has a friend of mine and it's a stinking determination that nothing is impossible and it for hot of what I
drawn in moments like hard rock my life is being a journey of stubbornness it often got in trouble at school especially but more times than not through pure determination and I think most importantly with no fear of falling I forced my way through closed doors and found what I've been searching for the love and joy of being an empowered woman with a whole world full of
opportunities as continually learning about sea sick I want it to be more Caesar grows and our girls proud to be girls girls who are confident and not dependent on being attractive to or proved off by anybody else girls who go on to get more out of the world I want a world of girls who stand up for what they believe in girls her brave enough to
sit outside of a comfort zone and I want all of us to raise outgrows fee if seasick do you all encourage your children to spread their wings fly and then fall flat on their face we need to show at Hilton resilience we need to show our children that full lane is not filing but is about it is it is about how we get up from that
full learn from it change it MoveOn and see that perfection is not how life is running is about the most honest I have to be with myself it is a simple and empowering activity only made as ash shoes determination and pre it still surprises me what we can achieve with that arm to fate and a lot of Caesar and even hot when times do get tough
we do have control of how we deal with things even in these high high mountains when there's no way out you need to find your tenacity to hold on through the pain and fatigue you need to find your and a Caesar and you can't just expect to have it you have to end at learn at and the note should throw it my footsteps have not always
been easy there have been struggles I politics and sports injuries relationship battles constant movement with my structure or retain I will I remember one writes clearly I was standing on the podium with two other women we've been given nice bathrobes instant suntan lotion at that price the mean they got fifteen hundred year and a case of very things CC grows and I would ask to stand
out ground against inequality and the sport that we love we didn't move that stage until that organizes at the podium rather until the organizes a greater knowledge that we had done something just as awesome as man and we demanded equal prizes for men and women it is through struggles like days that I've learnt worker was CC looks like resilient honest patient brave a growth no limitations
a girl who has fallen time and time again and is not afraid to full gracefully again I'm honored to be considered as CC grow is a positive role model to encourage others specially grows I find via an SEC show the world via true colors the determination to succeed through trial and error string through fun hardware compassion people often ask me how can I. T. C. suit
to my children I answer you condo the line this is alot global project it's not simple we need all hands on we need to nurture and nourish Iran for what they are and who that we need to encourage them as my parents did for me as wonderful role models spread their wings and fly and all of you each and everyone of you also have the opportunity
