Dancer who lost leg in Boston Marathon bombings will run it

[Miles Archer]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=trackandfield&id=14657593&ex_cid=espnfb

BOSTON -- A professional ballroom dancer who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombings says she's training to run this year's race: all 26.2 miles of it.

Adrianne Haslet-Davis said Wednesday she'll run to help raise money and awareness for Limbs for Life, an Oklahoma City-based organization that provides prostheses to low-income amputees who can't afford an artificial limb.

Haslet-Davis, 35, lost her left leg below the knee in the April 2013 attacks, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.

She said she's up to 10 miles in training, using a carbon-fiber blade to help fulfill a promise she made to herself after the attacks -- a vow, she jokes, "that I made while I was doped up on Vicodin."

[KamaAina]

1. Awesomesauce!

[mythology]

2. I wish they would record her running and

Play it on repeat in Dzhokar Tsarnaev's cell.

[lpbk2713]

3. I'd love to see that.

And I don't care if she even finishes or not. I admire the hell out of her for trying.

[Half-Century Man]

4. Another elegant "Fuck you, Fate".

I truly love it when some random person amazes me. Proof we can be better than we generally are.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

5. What a woman of strength

I admire her.

[NutmegYankee]

6. I've been following her story for years.

What a strong and courageous person!