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danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 19, 2007, 09:39:40 am ---
--- Quote from: saint on November 19, 2007, 09:13:12 am ---The fact that it was not necessarily wise does not eliminate the intestinal fortitude. :)

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Very true.  Remember, we're all invincible at 18 years old. 

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im still invincible at more than TWICE that age  ;D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 19, 2007, 10:09:14 pm ---There's something to be said for perspective. 

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There is the possibility she was in shock after the first major fracture.  I've seen way too many guys on football fields get up and walk on obviously unstable injured legs without thinking about it first.  By the time her leg is complete toast her rational thought could have been half shut down.

billf:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 19, 2007, 10:09:14 pm ---Yeah . . . I feel like such a cynical meanie, but my immediate reaction was, "Wha . . . you fool, what are you doing?"  That girl had warnings.  The initial fracture was causing her a lot of pain and she needed to stop running on it.  Then her leg snapped, and she knew it snapped, and she got back up on the leg and tried to continue running on it.  Then her leg snapped again, so she just started crawling.  For reference, she was not being chased by a bear at the time.  There's something to be said for perspective. 

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She had no way to know at the time, that the pain she was running with was the initial fracture.  Runners run with pain all the time - just ask my wife.  Her coach cut back her training for the two weeks leading up to the race.


--- Quote ---The leg had been sore on and off for the previous two weeks, prompting Berkshire coach Julie Cole to limit Markwardt in practice. When she heard the crack, Markwardt thought it was a muscle pull or tear. She thought she could gut it out to the finish line.
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I think this quote from the article sums it up:

--- Quote ---Even if her leg had given out at the 400-meter mark, she said, it wouldn't have mattered. She was going to finish.
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She started the race and she was going to finish it.  Good for her.  That right there is intestinal fortitude.

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