Forums >Off the Beaten Path>Duluth runner's pain is no pulled muscle, rather, a baby
June 5, 2013
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A Duluth woman training for a half-marathon says she thought she had pulled a muscle or ruptured a disc in her back before she ended up in a hospital emergency room.
And, when doctors told her that her pain was actually due to an impending birth, Trish Staine says she was in denial.
Staine says she told doctors a baby was impossible. Her husband, John, had a vasectomy and there were no signs of pregnancy - no weight gain and no feeling of fetal movement.
Staine says she ran for two hours Sunday and later had a sore back. On Monday, the pain became unbearable. An ambulance rushed her to a Duluth hospital where she and her husband were stunned by the news. The new mother says they've named their baby girl Mira, which is short for Miracle.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
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Ha! Miracle Staine! I think I've got a bottle of that somewhere.
Well that's one way to make sure you're allowed to run through a pregnancy.
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No weight gain? Wow!
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I checked, and she is signed up to run Grandma's Half Marathon in 2-and-a-half weeks.
Her husband had a vasectomy. So it really is a miracle. No other plausible explanation.
I checked, and she is signed up to run Grandma's Half Marathon in 2-and-a-half weeks. Her husband had a vasectomy. So it really is a miracle. No other plausible explanation.
None?
Another immaculate conception?
Fed-x really delivered on that one.
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not bad for mile 25
And her uterus obviously didn't fall out.
The baby did though!