Subject: First triathlon Hi everyone,
My name is Cruz, I kicked around the idea of starting to train for an ironman triathlon a few months ago. Just after I started I was in a rapelling accident in which I fell 45 feet and landed flat on my back, among my other injuries I received a burst fracture on my L1 and the bone fragments punctured my spinal cord. One month after the injury I am walking fine and going to school, I realize that my recovery ( the ability to walk again ) isn't typical of SCI patients so I was thinking of trying to participate in the redman ironman triathlon one year from this month and trying to fundraise for SCI patients since I did get so lucky. I'm going to ask my doctors if this could reinsure my back of course, but what do you all think? I was In great shape before the accident but due to severe muscle atrophy and having my back muscles severed in surgery I'm very weak now. |