Unknown Thank You

Just when I felt like stopping and walking around mile 8 of my 11 mile run today I passed a fellow athlete headed in the other direction. She gave me a smile and said, "You go, girl!" Well, you can't stop after that, so onward I plodded for the next 3 miles with those words in the back of my head pushing me on. I don't know who the woman was, but I am so thankful to her for those words. Today was definitely the slowest long run that I've recorded, but without the encouragement from that stranger it would have been much worse. Thank you for the inspiration!