Hi this is karene

is karene. Hi this is katey from Washington DC and you're left to know me

athlete radio. Doug I had a light bulb flash moment of insight and inspiration and I'm going to join

you in your 2.18 miles per day December running challenge.

I love it.

Yes.

What was the light bulb moment?

So it came, sort of, I guess inauspiciously, might be the right word, I don't know.

Ominously, I don't know, my car broke down.

I was driving, I had my mom and my daughter with me, and the accelerator just stopped working in the car.

It just the battery was still on. I had plenty of gas. It just stopped doing anything as if you were

out of gas. Like in the road?

Yeah, I was driving in the road.

On one of these mountainous roads near my house

that I always say prevents me from running.

So I pulled the car over as fast as I could

onto a side street with no gas and then I said okay let's

let's walk home because we were only about a third of a mile from maybe half mile from home okay

let's start walking and my mom and my mom said,

no, we're not doing that because it's too, we don't want to run on these streets or

walk on these streets with a child. It's just not good. So I said, okay, well, I'll just

run home because I wanted to be quick and get our other car and come back and pick them up and did all that.

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