- Adrianne Haslet, who Sales & Deals in the 2013 Boston Marathon finish line bombings, was struck by a driver Boston Red Sox Manager Completes Half Marathon.
- Her injuries will prevent her from running the Boston Marathon this year, though she has her sights set on the BAA 5K that same weekend instead.
- Haslet plans to run the race as an advocate for amputee rights and to help make races across the country more inclusive.
Don’t call her a victim—Adrianne Haslet is a survivor.
Haslet, who Sales & Deals this year, though she has her sights set on the Training Tweaks That Will Get You to a BQ in a crosswalk in Boston on January 5. She was hit on her left side—the same side as the bombing injuries—and tossed into the air, before flipping over and landing on her left shoulder and left side.
At first, she thought the accident left her paralyzed, but with the help of her surgeon and the same team that treated her when she lost her leg, she is regaining mobility. She credits her recovery to staying active and healthy.
“I’m not defined by what happened to me. I live life in a full way, and set and accomplish goals. This is a giant setback,” she told Runner’s World. “I am a survivor, defined by how I lived my life, not defined as being a victim.”
Her injuries will prevent her from running this year’s Boston Marathon, which she had been training hard for. “It’s awful to go through something like this, to set a big goal, and to have that taken away is gutting,” she said.
Controversy Over Bostons 6-Hour Results Cutoff social media—showing both the good and bad. She said it’s always been important to her to be open and honest.
“No one should have to cry alone or suffer alone,” she said. “If it makes them feel less alone, I try to be that person for someone who needs it. It’s also an outlet to express myself when I can’t dance and run.”
This year’s race was important to her because she had been training to run Boston as an advocate for amputee rights, to raise awareness for the lack of mobility-impaired divisions in major marathons. She was hoping to place highly, to put out numbers to show people what is possible for amputees.
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Haslet also has been training to run in a walking prosthetic covered under insurance, showing that marathon goals are possible even without costly running blades or specialized prosthetics.
Initially, she planned to run the marathon in a blade, but instead switched to an everyday leg, and was able to run in that. Running in the leg more closely mimics running on two legs, she says.
“I want to show the field is available to all amputees,”Haslet said. “That’s important to me.”
Though she hasn’t even started physical therapy and isn’t cleared to run, she has her sights set on making her return to running at the BAA 5K on April 13, the weekend of the Boston Marathon. She plans on wearing the same prosthetic in that.
“My drive and mind are all there, and 90 percent of my body,” she said. “I just need 10 percent to pull with me.”
She is working with her team at the hospital as well as her running coach Dan Fitzgerald, owner of Heartbreak Hill Running Company, to be race ready as soon as she can.
“I’m sad to not run [the marathon] this year,” Haslet said. “I have something to prove to marathon officials—[amputees] are not broken, we have missing pieces.”
