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The 34-year-old eventually asked a course official how much farther to the finish line.

“Once I realized what I had done, I figured, well I’ll just run 20 miles and use it as a long run and call it a day,” she said.

That was until she noticed very few people ahead of her. She asked the official if it would count if she ran the full marathon. After a brief word with the race director, she learned her time would be honored.

So, onward she ran.

Having only run 20 miles prior to this race, Fitzmaurice said nearing the finish line was “surreal.”

“I just kept thinking you can do this, just get it done. The last couple miles were really tough,” she told the wire service.

With her final time of 3:11:48, Fitzmaurice won the women’s division, took 10th place overall and qualified for the Boston Marathon. The maximum time for Fitzmaurice to qualify for Boston was 3:35:00.

In addition to adrenaline pulling her through, she said her success, in part, was due to how fast she was running during the first half of the race.

“If I knew I was going to be running the full marathon I probably wouldn’t have ran so fast. So maybe it was a good thing,”