Paralympics team for four years and then switched to distance running in 2000. That was the year Marseilles chose running as her sport. “I saw these amputees running in an Olympic-caliber event on these prosthetic legs that had no feet,” she said. In 1996, a video of the Paralympic Games caught her attention. Doctors told her she would need to exercise to stay healthy, so she joined a gym and started working out. Since then, Marseilles has worn prostheses to remain mobile. She eventually recovered, except for her legs, which had to be amputated a few inches below each knee to save her from gangrene.
2, 1988, we had frostbite on all our extremities - my hands, my nose, my ears and my feet,” Marseilles said. They stayed in the Chevy for 11 days, surviving on nothing but cinnamon rolls and melted snow.
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