She had been a track and field star and had run a marathon, but Jennifer Burroughs said yesterday she'd be happy if she could just walk normally again after the June 2007 accident that derailed her plans.

Ms. Burroughs spoke at the sentencing of Christopher M. Titus, who pleaded guilty June 12 to hitting her with a stolen car as she waited for a bus in Oakland and then fleeing the scene.

After hearing emotional statements from the defendant's high school teachers and Ms. Burroughs, who was dragged for 50 feet under the car after impact, Allegheny County Judge Jill E. Rangos sentenced Mr. Titus, 20, of Garfield, to serve four to eight years in boot camp, with credit for time served, followed by 10 years' probation.

The judge also ordered him to pay restitution to Ms. Burroughs, 26, of Crafton, who broke six ribs, her pelvis, ankle, wrist, shoulders, tailbone and two bones in her back, had more than a dozen surgeries and spent a total of 182 days in four hospitals after the accident.

Mr. Titus expressed remorse yesterday as he did on the day he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, fleeing or eluding police and two counts of reckless endangerment.

Ms. Burroughs, her mother and her husband all gave statements about the impact the hit-and-run accident at Fifth Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard on June 28, 2007, had on their lives.

Her mother, Mary Kay Gabel, and husband, Greg Burroughs, talked about the horror of learning about what had happened to her and not being able to recognize her with tubes and gauze and a neck brace at the hospital.

Ms. Burroughs, a PPG employee and University of Pittsburgh business school student who has had to leave her work and put her schooling on hold, talked about "celebrating" her first wedding anniversary with her husband in the hospital. She said she lost hope of recovery at one point, adding, "Not a single day since the accident have I had a day without pain."