When Betty Holston Smith coaches runners at the Montgomery County Road Runners Club, she encourages them to “abandon your limits.”
in Fort Lauderdale, she ran 187.31 miles in 144 hours. She’s targeting a 48-hour race and another 6-day ultra in the fall.In her late 20s, Smith weighed 200 pounds. While working full-time as a typist for the federal government and attending college courses at night, she was taking diet pills prescribed by her doctor. But she’d often lose weight and gain it back quickly. As a smoker who ate fast food on a regular basis, she had trouble keeping up with her toddler daughter.
“He just made so much sense,” Smith said. For the first time ever, she started walking three times a week and eventually“Running became the core of my life,” she said. “Over time, everything in my life was to support my running.”Today, Smith runs at least 60 miles per week, and she has competed in 85 marathons around the world—26.2s on six continents and a half marathon in Asia, the seventh continent.
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