Patti discovered the meaning of running when she was 23. At that time she was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day and had   36   over 50 pounds. “I decided to   37  ,” she says. She took a clock and started   38   what she did every day, and then she   39   an hour a day as a “be nice to Patti” hour. “I started having bubble（泡沫）baths with a candle   40  , because Cosmopolitan Magazine   41   that this would be good for me. But I got   42   of that soon,” Patti remembers. She wanted to do something really pleasant. She found that the   43   times in her life were times when she was physically active. So she took up   44  .
She decided to start   45   the next day. She ran for an hour,   46  a total of 7 miles on her first run. “I couldn’t walk for 2 weeks   47   I felt painful all over!” Patti recalls. “But I felt so wonderful!” Patti wasn’t crazy about running yet, but she was in   48   with the after effects of it.
Within seven months, Patti had run her first marathon, qualified for the Boston Marathon, and placed 25th in the world for   49   distance runners. Over the next years, she   50   records and set standards for women in the sport. She was the first American woman to run a marathon   51  than 2 hours 30 minutes, and then broke another two records   52   an 8-month period.
Patti believes that, if we can   53   standards for ourselves, we can pull ourselves out of the most difficult   54   and come out on top. “Everybody has to be a/an   55   and everybody has that in them.”

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