“Grandma still thinks we’re a little crazy, but she understands this is what we love.”
She battled on, praying that mile 62 would come soon enough. There, she could pick up Lickteig as a pacer to get her over the final 38 miles.Battling sore quads, the duo embraced the“We were on a ridgeline, so exposed, and all of a sudden my mom takes off,” Lickteig said. “I was like, ‘holy cow.’ It was invigorating, and I had a hard time keeping up.”
Mile markers to the finish started appearing. Leonard asked her daughter to stop calling each one out, not wanting to hear how far she had left. The only time Leonard was happy to hear about a mile marker was the final one. “She just told me, ‘It can’t be; I know it’s not,’” Lickteig said. “When she saw it, she just burst into tears and I think it sunk in that she was going to finish 100 miles. When she crossed the line, it was something I can’t even describe. Seeing my mom accomplish a dream and goal, it was so heartfelt.”
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