She never thought she'd make it past half a mile. Now a 16-year-old Chicago student from Ghana is ready to run 26.
by Alison Bowen, Chicago Tribune
Oct 12, 2019
3 minutes
CHICAGO - Esi Koomson didn't think she'd ever run farther than half a mile. But with the help of a local running group for high schoolers, she ran a 5K. Surely, she thought, that was her max. But then she tackled a 10K.
"I was kind of thinking, this is the most I can do. But then I still wanted to keep going, to see what I really can do." She completed a half marathon next, and now, Koomson is signed up to run this weekend's Chicago Marathon.
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