A Strong Woman for the Task
By Alyson Ward, Staff Writer, Houston Chronicle
Updated May 1, 2013 5:22 p.m.
On a rainy evening, some 30 women are circling the half-mile track in Shady Lane Park. Some have jogged ahead; others walk in clusters, chatting as Theresa Strong runs up behind them, her shoes sloshing through wet grass.
“OK, is anybody strolling up there? ‘Cause if you’re strolling. …”
Strong, 53, is the reason they’re on this track, dodging puddles and training for a 5K.
“You don’t have to sign up,” she told them the week before, when she showed up at their residential treatment center for drug and alcohol abuse. “It’s really good for you, and it will change your life, but you don’t have to do it.”
The women on the track want to do it. READ MORE>>