The Inspiration Peter Tainer ’16 By Jenny Kincaid Boone ’01
minutes, 12 seconds. That was the time Peter Tainer ’16 clocked in his first mile as a 6-year-old first-grader. And he’ll never forget it. He was the last student to finish four laps on the track. His classmates cheered for him. Some circled back to run with him. Tainer was frustrated. “I want my left foot amputated,” he told his mother after school that day. That may sound like a drastic request after a one-time slow running performance. Not for Tainer, an 18-year-old Roanoke College freshman whose success as a runner with two amputations is growing. Tainer — who Tom and Meg Tainer of Botetourt County, Va. adopted in South Korea as an
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