As she did, the tears that dripped from Paulson s eyes met with the sweat that had accumulated on the cotton T-shirt that she ran the entire race in it was the shirt, she said, that kept her moving forward.
According to Paulson, all of this stemmed from a memory she has of watching her dad run and cross the finish line at the 1988 Deseret News Marathon. My mom loaded all 11 of us kids in the van, and I remember watching my dad looking so miserable, she said. I didn t know why anyone would do something that would cause so much pain. But that experience sparked something in me, and I knew that I wanted to run a marathon someday.
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