Ep. 560: Pushing Yourself While Pushing Your Mother - Beth Craig
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When Beth’s mom, Barbara, was diagnosed with MS at the age of 38, a lot of things quickly seemed out of control and out of reach. Her mother’s confinement to a wheelchair was now the new normal. However, nothing seemed to be able to stop Barbara’s (Babsie) from wearing her room-filling smile.
Years later, when Beth went to a local running event, she saw Rick and Dick Hoyt running in a modified wheelchair, since Rick was unable to walk or speak after being born with Cerebral Palsy.
Once Beth saw the father-son duo doing the impossible, she knew that she and her mother could do those events too. She got a hold of a Hoyt “Blade” running wheelchair and started running with her mother, creating Team Babsie.
To date, they’ve completed tons of 5Ks, 10Ks, half-marathons, marathons, triathlons and charity bike rides. Last summer, Team Babsie pushed Babsie to the top of Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Currently, they are training to qualify for the Boston Marathon and in the Spring of 2020 they are headed to Spain to walk a part of the Camino de Santiago
I hope you enjoy this story of inspiration, commitment, and love.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, I want to thank our sponsors Athletic Brewing for making a great option for non-alcoholic craft beer. |
| 0:07.0 | You can save 15% on an order using the code adventure at athletic brewing.com. |
| 0:12.8 | And also want to thank CS Instant Coffee for making a great option for Instant Coffee while in the backcountry. |
| 0:18.9 | It's a 100% Arabica and 100% compostable packaging. |
| 0:22.8 | Go to c.sinstant.coffee and use the code adventure for 20% off at checkout. |
| 0:28.8 | What's one of the greatest parts of it for me is I'm still in touch with people who knew us then, right? |
| 0:37.1 | So they knew the struggle. |
| 0:38.6 | They knew when I was 15. |
| 0:40.9 | They watched my mom, you know, go through some challenges, and now they see us now. |
| 0:49.3 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:52.1 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life you're |
| 0:55.9 | going to hear from explorers adventures business owners and anyone living their life a little more |
| 1:02.1 | out of the box than usual so beth was inspired by the Hoyt family, the father-son duo. |
| 1:18.4 | The son, Rick, has cerebral palsy. |
| 1:20.9 | And the father has been pushing him in a wheelchair, pulling him in a raft, and just bringing |
| 1:26.9 | him on triathlons and marathons for years and years and |
| 1:31.2 | years now. They've done a thousand races together. One day Beth saw them doing that and instantly |
| 1:38.2 | her mind went to her own situation. Her mother was diagnosed with MS when Beth was only 15 years old and was quickly confined to a wheelchair for, you know, the remainder of her life up until this point. |
| 1:52.6 | And when Beth saw that, you know, having one of those specialized wheelchairs called Blades, that that was possible. She decided to go get one. |
| 2:01.9 | And her and her mother, Barbara, Babsey, as they call her, have been racing ever since. |
| 2:08.6 | And so Team Babsey has done some incredible things. They've gone to the top of Mount Washington. |
| 2:13.6 | They're trying to qualify for the Boston Marathon, but they've done tons of 5K, 10Ks, half marathons, |
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