BY MARTI N DUGARD PHOTOG RAP HY: DAN CAM PBELL
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How an Achil les heel saves the Eco-Challenge from 16 camera CreW
!lisa Smith appraised her injured left knee. The damage would later be diag nosed as a Grade 2 tear of the medial meniscus, though the technicalities of
the mess didn't matter. What did matter were the 20 an.ti-inflammatory Toridal she'd gobbled in the span of a day, all the while laboring through a 62-mile mountain bike ride through the Austra lian rainforest, then a mile trek down a mountainside any skier would label "double black diamond." But she kept on because she was competing in the Eco-Challenge.
And because her three mates on Team ATRl would be disqualified if she quit. And mostly because she has the constitution of a tank, and the mental strength required of all champi�ns. Just two weeks before Eco, that mental
