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In 2016, Rai aimed to continue racing but a ruptured ACL forced her to undergo surgery. Instead of running herself, she decided to encourage others. So she organized the first ever running race in her home village. She secured 90 pairs of running shoes for children who don’t have shoes and raised money through generous donors in the running community, a pasta sale at a race in Italy, and screenings of a movie about her journey, Mira, which was a finalist in the Banff Mountain Film Festival this year.

More than a hundred people showed up in mid-October to take part in the festivities and run a short race around the dry, arid hills of Bhojpur. Rai watched the colorful chaos of all the runners, ages 15 to 35, huffing up slopes and grinning on the descents, their new race bibs fluttering in the mountain air. A bubbly, perennially upbeat person, she lit up seeing the joy on their faces.