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Elizabeth Castro powers through her final training runs en route to running in the Publix Marathon to raise awareness and funds for Camp Kudzu.
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Elizabeth Castro typically gets in a quick stretch before hitting the pavement. Between interval training and tempo runs, some ups and downs, Castro said she felt she was ready to tackle her first marathon.
“Sometimes, I don’t meet the times that I need to make,” Castro said. “Sometimes, I exceed. There are moments I’m happy and moments that I’m disappointed. I’ve been upset, because I haven’t met my plan sometimes. But there’s no perfect plan.”
Plans often change, and Castro is going with the flow because she’s running with purpose. She’s running for her son, Isaac.
“He was a runner, and that’s how I started my running journey,” Castro said. “He gave up running because of his diabetes. He didn’t like to carry with his supplies. It would bother him. So he stopped running, and I continued running. I want to prove to him that not because things get hard, you’ll give up on something you like to do.”
Isaac ran cross country in middle school, but he started feeling dizzy and tired one day. Then, he began vomiting and had to go to the hospital, where doctors diagnosed the 12-year-old with Type 1 diabetes in May 2024. Isaac spent a week in the hospital and almost went into a sugar coma, according to his mother.
“He didn’t choose this,” Castro said. “It was something that happened, and he just has to accept it and be proud of it. Because God doesn’t give you something you can’t surpass.”
Now 14, Isaac continues to adjust to different plans. He finds it difficult to accept his disease, as he leans on his family through all the uncertainty.
“It was just like I didn’t want it. I didn’t want to have what I have,” Isaac said. “I appreciate my mom trying to teach me that anything’s possible. She’s trying to teach me that I can do anything, even with the sickness.”
Through tears, Isaac thanked the people at Camp Kudzu, a nonprofit that brings kids with diabetes together to entertain and inspire through various events.
“It means a lot that they’re trying to support me and other people,” Isaac said. “They need to know they’re not alone.”
With significance in every step, momentum in every mile and a lesson in every leap of faith, Elizabeth Castro powers through her final training runs en route to running in the Publix Marathon on Sunday in Atlanta. She will be raising awareness and funds for Camp Kudzu. In a heart-to-heart with her son, Castro held her son’s hand, while she gave him some advice.
“It’s something you’ll live with for the rest of your life,” Castro said. “I don’t want you to see this as a punishment or question why you have this. I want you to see it as a superpower. You can do anything you want to do, anything you set your mind to you’ll be able to do it.”
Castro wears a dolphin pendant as a reminder of the life she wants to live and provide for her family.
“I’ve always been a dolphin lover since I can remember,” Castro said. “They’re free, and I guess that’s where we want to be.”
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