Michele Platz

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“Above All Odds” by Michele Platz

Submitted to Contest #235

The streets were lined with spectators, all cheering, but all I could hear at this point was my own labored breathing. I’ve been training for this moment for years. The Olympic qualifying race. I had been running for the University of Oregon for four years and running for even longer. It was my release from life. I loved every tortured stride of it. My legs burned at every land of my long stride, almost 26.2 miles down, 100 yards to go and I had it! “You got this Alexis,” I muttered to myself. “You’ve worked most of your life for this moment...

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