INSPIRATION
Thank you to my dear U.K. friend Wolfy for sharing this awesome video. I cried.
(Quote):A glimpse of the remarkable father-son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt, and their inspirational journey together in a triathlon and life itself.
AMAZING VIDEO Turn your sound up and hear the moving song that plays too.....
(Quote):Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they are not in a marathon they are in a triathlon - that daunting, almost superhuman combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.
It is a remarkable record of exertion - all the more so when you consider that Rick cannot walk or talk.
For the past twenty five years or more Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines. When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.
At Rick's birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. Dick and his wife Judy were told that there would be no hope for their child's development.
"It has been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," says Dick. "When he was eight months old the doctors told us we should just put him away - he would be a vegetable all his life, that sort of thing. Well those doctors are not alive anymore, but I would like them to be able to see Rick now."
Thank you Wolfy. And like another dear friend of mine just said about herself, I should watch this video every day just to put my own little problems into perspective.
What an inspiring story.
I just watched it for the 4th. time and again it made me cry.
Take good care of each other, and God bless.
PEACE!
Love Jude
Thank you to my dear U.K. friend Wolfy for sharing this awesome video. I cried.
(Quote):A glimpse of the remarkable father-son bond of Dick and Rick Hoyt, and their inspirational journey together in a triathlon and life itself.
AMAZING VIDEO Turn your sound up and hear the moving song that plays too.....
(Quote):Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they are not in a marathon they are in a triathlon - that daunting, almost superhuman combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.
It is a remarkable record of exertion - all the more so when you consider that Rick cannot walk or talk.
For the past twenty five years or more Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines. When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.
At Rick's birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. Dick and his wife Judy were told that there would be no hope for their child's development.
"It has been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," says Dick. "When he was eight months old the doctors told us we should just put him away - he would be a vegetable all his life, that sort of thing. Well those doctors are not alive anymore, but I would like them to be able to see Rick now."
Thank you Wolfy. And like another dear friend of mine just said about herself, I should watch this video every day just to put my own little problems into perspective.
What an inspiring story.
I just watched it for the 4th. time and again it made me cry.
Take good care of each other, and God bless.
PEACE!
Love Jude
posted by Jude at Tuesday, July 25, 2006
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