This is a blog where wheelcahir racers can post their stories about wheelchair racing to help complete a project that hopes to document the great and animated history of the wheelchair racing.
It was the Long Beach Half Marathon in the late 80's and I was racing with Don Caron, Chirs Mogensen, Keith Dysert, and I think Dave Cornelson. We came up the hill near Jack in the Box and a motorcycle cop pulled out just as Chris ( who was leading our group at the time) was passing. The cop hit Chris and the rest of us scatter to avoid hitting time. Don and I started pushing and Keith yells, "Stop lets wait for Chris." We stop, the cop helps Chris onto his wheels and we raced to the finish together. Long Beach Half marathon was a great race.
Early 90's Wheels of Fire in Seattle. The men's open race started first. The women started two minutes behind, Don Caron and I had crossed the floating bridge and were climbing up to land on the other side of the bay. We heard a nosie quickly approaching from behind, it was Candace Cable, Jean Driscoll and Deanna Sodoma charging up the same hill. However, while we expected them to pass us, we did not expect them to pass with such ease as they were talking about makeup. It was a great race and we all had a good laugh afterwards.
Share your favorite Boston Marathon Story. Mine was when I crashed fifty yards behind the big crash of 1987. The spectators helped me back up, I continued on. My wheel was un-threading and I yelled, "Does anyone have an allen wrench?" One guy yelled, "Yes." He ran into his garage, grabbed his huge tool box, dropped it on the street, looked for the right size while two other spectators lifted me the loosening wheel, the guy found the right wrench, tightened the wheel and the crowd sent me back into the race with a giant push. A great day
This is a blog where wheelcahir racers can post their stories about wheelchair racing to help complete a project that hopes to document the great and animated history of the wheelchair racing.
ReplyDeleteIt was the Long Beach Half Marathon in the late 80's and I was racing with Don Caron, Chirs Mogensen, Keith Dysert, and I think Dave Cornelson. We came up the hill near Jack in the Box and a motorcycle cop pulled out just as Chris ( who was leading our group at the time) was passing. The cop hit Chris and the rest of us scatter to avoid hitting time. Don and I started pushing and Keith yells, "Stop lets wait for Chris." We stop, the cop helps Chris onto his wheels and we raced to the finish together. Long Beach Half marathon was a great race.
ReplyDeleteEarly 90's Wheels of Fire in Seattle. The men's open race started first. The women started two minutes behind, Don Caron and I had crossed the floating bridge and were climbing up to land on the other side of the bay. We heard a nosie quickly approaching from behind, it was Candace Cable, Jean Driscoll and Deanna Sodoma charging up the same hill. However, while we expected them to pass us, we did not expect them to pass with such ease as they were talking about makeup. It was a great race and we all had a good laugh afterwards.
ReplyDeleteHey Paul this is so cool. I am looking forward the all the history!
ReplyDeleteHi Paul!
ReplyDeleteShare your favorite Boston Marathon Story. Mine was when I crashed fifty yards behind the big crash of 1987. The spectators helped me back up, I continued on. My wheel was un-threading and I yelled, "Does anyone have an allen wrench?" One guy yelled, "Yes." He ran into his garage, grabbed his huge tool box, dropped it on the street, looked for the right size while two other spectators lifted me the loosening wheel, the guy found the right wrench, tightened the wheel and the crowd sent me back into the race with a giant push. A great day
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