For runners, Marathon Monday is always a big day But for Rebekah Gregory DiMartino, this year's race may have been the biggest.
"This is the day....I take my life back," she wrote on her Facebook page, Rebekah Gregory DiMartino's New day New Hope.
The runner survived the Boston Marathon bombings two years ago. A year and a half later, after much treatment that failed to save the limb, her left leg was amputated in November.
Wearing a Rebekah Strong shirt Monday, the Texas native ran the last few miles of the Boston Marathon. At the finish line, where the bombs went off just over two years ago, she dropped down and embraced the ground.
With a photo of that emotional moment, she posted a Bible verse on the Facebook page later in the day - "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."
