Meyer Friedman does things he isn't meant to do.
Take, for example, October 2000.
Friedman, then a senior at Tulane, tumbled down a steep hill in the middle of a 5-mile race during the Conference USA cross country championships in St. Louis. Spikes ripped his palms. Runners trampled his back. Throbbing wounds on his hands and knees were so raw that, hours later, he refused to shower, and then-Tulane cross country coach Ron Bazil cracked that Friedman could use a birdbath to bathe.
A weaker man might have collected himself and sandbagged the rest of the route. Not Friedman.
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