Keira D'Amato smashed the American women's marathon record, winning the Houston Marathon in 2:19:12.
She slowly started running again when her husband was deployed, and now she's etched her name in the history books."Part of me just can't believe this is happening and the other part is like, 'this is happening because you worked your tail off,'" D'Amato said in an interview with a"To think that this dream was gone a decade ago, and somehow I just believed that age is just a number and it doesn't matter how old you are, you can chase your dreams.
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