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The Olympic athlete, who broke her limb during the marathon, reflects 3 months on.
An Olympic marathon runner who completed this summer's contention with a breached limb is to resume grooming this week.
Rose Harvey, from Evesham, successful Worcestershire, said she could not hold to get backmost out, "hungrier than ever, acceptable to enactment hard".
She battled done the "agony" successful Paris to decorativeness 78th successful a clip of 2:51:03 successful 24C heat.
Harvey said she was focused connected the adjacent Olympics: "I've got 4 years to LA, and immoderate truly breathtaking imaginable races successful between."
As good arsenic regaining her fittingness successful the months since the games, Harvey got joined to fiance Charlie Thuillier.
"We got joined 3 weeks aft the Olympics, which seemed a truly bully thought erstwhile we were readying it, due to the fact that I would beryllium disconnected grooming and capable to fto my hairsbreadth down a bit," she told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
In the event, she was inactive utilizing crutches connected the large day: "I conscionable astir made it down the aisle without them - I was fto disconnected by my physio for that precise peculiar occasion."
She added that spending the remainder of the time connected crutches "was a spot of a pain", but "didn't hamper our fun".
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Rose Harvey ended up crossing the enactment with a accent fracture of her femur
Looking backmost connected the marathon itself, she said: "There were a mates of points wherever I did halt successful the contention and thought 'I can't bash this immoderate more'."
But she said she asked herself if she would look backmost and wonderment if she could "run conscionable an other 5 minutes oregon an other mile".
"I went into that contention with specified antithetic goals, and my harsh professional wrong maine ever looks astatine what I wanted to execute - I was a agelong mode from that," she said.
"I deliberation astatine the moment, I'm not astatine the signifier wherever I tin consciousness arrogant of it. But I anticipation I'll look backmost and consciousness arrogant of immoderate portion of it successful clip to come."
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