Rebecca Mehra is a middle-distance runner with Little Wing, an elite running club in Bend, Oregon.
One day, Mehra had an “electrocution incident” in her home, which she recorded in her training log. Apparently, Mehra had an oven with a broken control panel, which caused it to beep continuously. So, she started unplugging the appliance when it wasn’t in use. That day, as she reached her hand behind the oven to pull the plug, something unexpected happened. ZAP!
Suddenly 240 volts were coursing through her left hand, up the arm, and down through her feet to the floor. “For what felt like three or four seconds I wasn’t able to let go of the plug,” she recalls, “as if my hand was glued to it.”
For a few moments, after successfully unplugging the oven, Mehra lay on the floor confused and worried. She felt fine at the moment, however, other than the fact that her hand was trembling, so “she carried on as usual.”
A few days later, the effects of that incident started to show: she couldn’t hit the splits, and, according to her coach, “It was like she was sticking to the ground on each step.”
What happened to her?
Find out more about Rebecca Mehra’s story over at Outside Online.
(Image Credit: Rebecca Mehra/ Instagram)