Monday, August 6, 2012

Oscar Pistorius

While my training is going on, the 2012 Olympics are also going on, with Track and Field beginning this past weekend.  What an inspiration these athletes are!  Especially this man, Oscar Pistorius, whose legs were amputated when he was a child because of a birth defect. 



Here he is making the semi-final in t he 400-meter.  He said in an interview with NBC's Mary Carillo that, when he received his first prostheses, his mother would tell his brother to put on his shoes in the morning and tell him to put on his legs, and that was the last she wanted to hear about any "disability."  He did not in fact consider himself disabled, just different.  At the conclusion of the interview, Carillo asked Professor Hugh Herr of MIT (himself an amputee),  “Oscar’s not broken?”  And he replied, “He’s not broken.  He’s perfect.”

So as I completed my six-mile hill run, up Bearpen and Sunset (for the third straight Monday in a row), I was thinking a great deal of the time about this perfect runner.

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