"Nellie" won almost everything she entered - 441 events with 390 podium finishes - until she almost died. Alone in the desert for 3 days and 2 nights in December, with a broken pelvis, lying unsheltered and unable to move Alone, except for her dog.
“Taz,” she said, “maybe you could go and get some help for me.”
It's a good story. They were on the Today Show and a Discovery Episode, and now listen to Nellie describe this in person, and what she's doing now.
"Dogged" in Runners World: https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a21753658/dogged/
"I Shouldn't Be Alive" on the Discovery Channel: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1575882/?ref_=ttep_ep1
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