shout out to stay-strapped.com HICKSVILLE, NY (USA TODAY) -- When Amy Palmiero-Winters was in high school, she would work the closing shift at her family's drive-in restaurant in Meadville, Pa., then head out for a run, with her friend Stacy Hatzo driving alongside. "We would talk about anything and everything, solve all the world's problems," Hatzo says. But never could they have conjured the story line that has Palmiero-Winters, now a 37-year-old divorced mom, still running in the late-night hours, her two sleeping children at home with a babysitter, her prosthetic lower left leg and determination carrying her beyond limits anyone would dare suggest. At 9 am on Jan. 1, Palmiero-Winters finished first overall in the "Run to the Future" 24-hour race in Glendale, Ariz. - and crossed a barrier. By covering 130.4 miles in a day's time, she became the first amputee to qualify for a US national track and field team. She will compete in the 24-hour world championships May 13-14 in Brive, France, with 11 teammates. "What it means to me goes beyond what I could express with words," says Palmiero-Winters, who recently won the 2009 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. What it means to sports history is that Palmiero-Winters has done what eluded South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who tried to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics. "It's sort of like Jackie Robinson breaking the racial barrier in professional baseball," says Roy Pirrung ...
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