Athletes make the best stories at times. Unfortunately it's at a time of struggle. Why is that? Perhaps it's the inspiration we feel, a human interest story, something we can relate to and through them we feel triumphant too.
This story is about Amy Palmiero-Winters, a 37-year-old mother of two with an amputated leg.
Yeah, I know, another feel good piece but it's pretty incredible.
She is the first amputee to be named to the U.S. national team. Palmiero-Winters runs 24 hour marathons, and competes in all sorts of insane endurance races, like the Western States Endurance Run, 100 miles of trail running through the Sierra Nevada (she is the third amputee to qualify). In July, she will run the Badwater Ultramarathon, a 135-miler in California from Death Valley to Mount Whitney — spanning three mountain ranges — in temperatures reaching 130 degrees.
Props to this lady, and the others as well, but she only has one real leg. I can run about three whole miles with my two god-given legs before I want to go home and take a cold shower to cool off.
Thanks for the inspiration Ms. Amy Pamiero-Winters. Good luck.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/summer/track/2010-04-25-amputee-runner_N.htm
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