'What a journey.' Endurance runner adds two more to her unofficial record for consecutive marathons
hen amputee athlete Jacky Hunt-Broersma says her mantra is, “I can do hard things,” she’s not kidding — the amputee athlete has run 104 marathons in as many days, all using a carbon-fiber prosthesis.
Brick Runners, an organization that supports athletes who raise money for charities, even designed a Jacky-inspired Lego-style character complete with one of her favorite T-shirts, which reads: “Strong Has Many Forms.” Every day since mid-January, she covered the classic 26.2-mile marathon distance either on a loop course laid out near her home in Gilbert, Arizona, or on a treadmill indoors.
In an interview with The Associated Press, she said she hoped her quest would inspire people everywhere to push themselves regardless of their physical limitations.