Many Happy Miles: Guiding Visually Impaired Athletes
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever considered being a guide for visually impaired athletes or are fascinated by folks who do, listen to this episode. Hosts Dimity and Sarah WF welcome guide Andrea Good, who leads a blind friend, Kate, through triathlons, then they bring on Francesco Magisano, the Director of Achilles NYC Metro region and a blind triathlete. They cover:
- what being a guide involves, including training for each triathlon discipline;
- the various races Andrea and Kate have tackled together;
- the rewards of helping another athlete achieve her goal; and,
- Francesco's personal experience as a blind runner and triathlete.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to many happy miles a podcast that celebrates all types of forward movement, |
| 0:14.4 | whether it's a two hour and 35 second marathon record as Calvin Kiptum recently ran |
| 0:20.3 | in the Chicago marathon or a two hour half marathon goal as many of us would |
| 0:26.4 | dream about. We're here to say yay to it all. I'm Dimmity McDowell co-founder of another mother runner. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Sarah Wasser Flynn and Dimmity today I'm saying yay to a nice walk and talk with a good friend. |
| 0:40.0 | I just got back. |
| 0:42.0 | She had a hysterectomy about 10 days ago. Okay. So we're in that stage of life, you know, where our friends are having major surgeries and |
| 0:50.3 | yes. And she's doing awesome. I mean she's a big athlete so she's very I would say |
| 0:58.8 | ready to roll but she's like I'm walking I'm just walking so it was so lovely to catch up with her and it just you know it's it makes you feel like okay you hear something like you have to have his |
| 1:09.5 | hysterectomy life's over but she's really like moving through and she has a lot of optimism and hope and it was elective so and she would |
| 1:16.9 | I'm talking about this at all but she is going to have a better life as a result and you know it was really |
| 1:22.1 | really good and heartwarming to see her in |
| 1:24.9 | to chat with her yeah yeah good yeah I mean I feel like walk and talks are really |
| 1:30.4 | healing and also healthy at the same time like healthy like physically and |
| 1:36.7 | emotionally you know like I really I really think that there's something about just |
| 1:41.6 | doing that with a friend that I just it |
| 1:43.6 | always refills my cup right and the two of us have done lots of runs of runs |
| 1:47.6 | together lots of bikes together lots of swims together we don't often walk |
| 1:51.1 | together so it was really nice. |
| 1:52.9 | Like she's slowing, she had to slow down, |
| 1:54.6 | it forced us to like really connect |
| 1:56.2 | and we didn't have nearly enough time, |
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