You have cherry-picked two facts from reading an article - i.e. she ran a marathon after and didn't miss time from work. The trial judge heard a bunch of evidence over a multi-day period, and likely received a whole whack of written material. Having considered it (s)he decided what was appropriate (in keeping with standards set by compensation given in other cases).
He's probably not a moron and he was in a better position to assess the thing than we were. As the ABCA recognized in not second-guessing him.
I guess my point is that there's too much of this "newspaper writes 500 words on judgment that took two days of trial and two months to write and everyone thinks they have an informed opinion" thing these days. And this is a 128k award, it's not wildly unprecedented or anything. I can see if I can get ahold of some of the materials if you really want to read them.
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