After she endured a grueling course of chemotherapy, her cancer was put into what appears to be complete remission.
The twenty-four hours race around the Nürburgring, one of the world's most grueling courses.
With just three weeks to qualify it's a grueling course headed by lifeguard veteran and rootless task master Coach Cris.
Here is a rowing machine for the heart, a grueling course in the difficulties and rewards of what might be called unassisted living.
And though there were pockets of fans lining the race tracks on what many skiers consider the most grueling course ever designed, the noise level was generally low.
A strict training regimen helped Johnson, an amateur triathlete, complete the grueling 140.6-mile course in a respectable 13 hours 45 minutes 14 seconds.
For example, they said, if a grueling course of chemotherapy would give you three more months of life, would you take it?
And there's evidence that patients who have a strong early response to the drugs may be able to shorten the grueling course of treatment.
Between 10 and 30 percent of those who take the grueling course of new AIDS medications fail to respond, experts say.
For the first time, the world's best-trained athletes will be challenged in a 90-kilometer Winter Triathlon, a grueling course of skating, running and cross-country skiing.