Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles,…
+ See More +Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece. In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles,…
+ See More - See Less -Deena Drossin-Kastor, a native of Waltham, Massachusetts took the Bronze at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
In high school Deena won three California cross country state titles, two track state titles, and she made the finals of the Kinney (Foot Locker) national cross country championships four times.
Deena graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1996 as a 4-time SEC Champion and an 8-time All-American. As a post collegiate Deena experienced a great amount of success under distance coach Dr. Joe Vigil. Under Coach Vigil's tutelage Deena captured many American Records including: 30:50.32 for the 10k, 2:21:16 for the marathon, 1:07:53 for the half-marathon, 24:36 for the 8k on the road, 47:15 for the 15k on the road. Currently Deena Kastor lives in Mammoth Lakes, California and is training under Coach Terence Mahon.
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according to a report from NBC, she WAS taking care of herself, and didn't see any reason to exercise a more significant degree of caution. She said that tendons "get hyper-sensitive leading up to a marathon... [she] was icing it this week. It didn't affect how [she] was training". Obviously, it didn't feel that severe, and I'm pretty sure she would have tended to it much more carefully had she known that something like this might happen.
It's just a really unfortunate occurrence, and I hope it's not too serious.
But what exactly is it? Stress fracture? Ruptured tendon?
It's so sad to have trained as hard as she did and end up having something like this happen. It was so upsetting to see her have to stop.
i didn't like the turn out and Paula...it was sad to watch.
stress fracture?
Go for it, Deena.