'You can set a goal and you can commit to the process that it takes, and then when you cross the finish line, you're like, 'I just did this.''
Running marathons has always been an outlet for Iesha Pankey, but after she was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease, running became much more challenging.'It is very rare. They did not know what it was. It's often confused with lymphoma,' she said.It's called Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease. It's very rare and mainly affects young women.'I was diagnosed in 2012. So at that point, it was even younger, I'll say. It was discovered in the 1970s,' Pankey said.
'My first marathon was more than just, 'Oh, I want to see if I can go run a marathon.' Science says that my joints should stay swollen and achy. My neck should have been very stationary. It was, 'I wonder how far I can get and see if I can do this,'' she said.Racing has taken her to Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., London and most recently, Berlin, where she crushed her goal, running 5:13:01.
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