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The Woman Who Started Running at Sixty When Keiko Sato turned sixty, her doctor gave her worrying news. Her blood pressure was too high, and she needed to change her lifestyle or risk serious illness. Keiko had never enjoyed exercise, and the idea of running seemed almost impossible. Yet five years later, she finished her first full marathon — and her story has inspired thousands. A Difficult Beginning At first, Keiko could barely run for one minute without stopping. "I felt embarrassed," she remembers. "Young runners passed me easily, and I wanted to give up many times." But she set herself a small goal: to run just a little farther each week. She did not compare herself to others, only to the person she had been the day before. Small Steps, Big Changes Month by month, the changes added up. Her blood pressure dropped, she slept better, and she made new friends at a local running club. The club members, she says, became like a second family. They celebrated together when she ran her first ten kilometers without stopping — a distance that had once seemed unthinkable. The Marathon On the day of the marathon, it rained heavily, and Keiko's legs ached after twenty kilometers. Several times she thought of quitting. But she remembered all the early mornings of training, and the friends waiting at the finish line. When she finally crossed it, after more than six hours, she was in tears — not from pain, but from joy. A Message for Everyone Keiko now gives talks encouraging older people to stay active. "It is never too late to begin," she tells them. "The hardest step is always the first one. After that, you just keep moving forward."

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