UP IN VIRGINIA, LIZZIE pounded down the long open stretch, her long brown ponytail swinging side-to-side as she sprinted toward the instructor with the stopwatch.
She hadn’t been a bit surprised to find that she was the second oldest trainee in her class. What did surprise her was that thanks to her time with Seattle PD, she was in better physical shape than over half of the people ten years her junior.
Even so, the punishing regimen had helped tone and condition her physique for maximum effectiveness – to the point she was just about to beat her personal best time in the one and a half mile.
She pushed through the imaginary finish line before slowing her speed, and the man clicked the timer to a stop and grinned.
“Nice, Zimmerman! Real nice! Great job,” he called out.
She waved her a
