When I was a kid, I was a little fat. And I was always tired because of that. At last I had to make a decision: 【小题1】. So a few weeks after my birthday, I started to lose weight.

Walking was all I could do at first. I started walking to a subway stop every day. On weekends, I walked in Central Park. A year later, I started to run. At first I could run for only two minutes, but I kept on.

It made a difference. I was losing nine or ten pounds a month. And there was something about running: It made me feel like a kid again. 【小题2】.

I started to think about the New York City Marathon, which goes right past my apartment building. For years，I thought I could never do that. 【小题3】. That summer, I started running for the marathon. And on the morning of the November 1st, I stood on the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island with more than 40,000 other runners，waiting for the event to start.

【小题4】, handing me cups of water. In Harlem, my mom and brother stood on a street corner to see me. And then I crossed the finish line in Central Park, and somebody put a medal (奖牌) around my neck. At the moment, I knew:【小题5】.