It was a freak mishap, someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Boone High School senior Aaron Kindt was just fooling around last spring when his ankle, one of the two that made him one of the Orlando-area's most prominent runners, was run over by a car. The damage wasn't too serious, just a bad sprain, but Kindt's running career was on hold for at least a little while.
Instead of sitting out the spring season, Kindt wanted to get back on track as soon as possible. He said that might have been a mistake.
"I just had some serious tissue damage and I sat out for about four weeks,'' Kindt said. "I wanted to get back and I rushed it. It slowed me down a lot.''
He competed in the 1,600 and 3,200 events last year but struggled with his ankle and set his sights on bigger goals for his senior year at Boone, his last before he runs for the University of Florida next fall.
With his ankle in decent shape, Kindt set out to win states at the Class 4A cross countr...
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