Texas amputee athletes soar in San Diego triathlon скачать в хорошем качестве

Texas amputee athletes soar in San Diego triathlon

Roy Martin of Dallas lost his right foot in an industrial accident. Fort Worth's Jennifer Teague Clark lost her left leg to a benign tumor. And Caitlin Conner of Chappell Hill lost her lower left leg, less than three years ago, in a motorcycle crash with a distracted driver. They met at Baker Prosthetics, the Fort Worth company that makes their new legs. And they decided, together, to put their hardware, and heart, to a test. Their choice was a team triathlon, sponsored annually by the Challenged Athletes Foundation in San Diego. And there, on the shores of La Jolla Cove, they found hundreds of people just like them taking one very big next step. "We're in our own element where everybody's like us and body parts are lying everywhere and it's OK,” Jennifer Teague Clark said with a laugh. Jennifer would be first, competing in a one-mile swim. Roy would be next, wearing his running blade on his right leg for a 10-mile run. And then Caitlin, an admitted novice on a bicycle, would try 44 grueling miles up and down the hills of La Jolla and northern San Diego County.