Kelly Herron does something that most of us cringe just thinking about. She runs. And not only does she run, but she’s currently a “marathoner-in-training.”
Kelly Herron
Of course, even Forrest Gump had to stop for the occasional bathroom break.
Four miles into her “long run,” on Sunday, the athlete from Seattle, Washington, stopped into the restroom facility at Golden Gardens Park. She never expected that her “biggest running nightmare” would become a reality.
Kelly shared the horrific experience on her Instagram along with photos:
Kelly Herron
According to an interview with ABC 7, while Kelly was drying her hands in the bathroom, she could instantly tell something was wrong. She was ambushed by a man who was hiding in a stall. He grabbed her tightly, but she was not going to have it.
“I fought for my life…clawing his face, punching back and desperately trying to escape his grip—never giving up.”
She successfully escaped, and even found a way to lock him in the bathroom until police arrived.
Kelly called the battle a “fight on the bathroom floor.” She explained to local news reporters that her drive to fight back was rooted in her deepest fear.
“That was the only thing that was motivating me…I cannot be raped by this guy in this place.”
The brave runner fueled her fight by staring that fear square in the eye and sprinting into action.