Survivor's Boston Marathon: 26.2 miles of agonizing ecstasy (Yahoo Sports)

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For amputee Adrianne Haslet, the Boston Marathon was a grueling 10 1/2-hour odyssey. ''It's really emotional because I think of all the definitions that this finish line has held,'' she told reporters after limping across the line Monday night. It was 26.2 miles of agonizing ecstasy for Haslet, 35, of Boston, whose prosthesis dug painfully into her stump.




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