Tonight I had the opportunity to hear Rick Ball speak at our local Running Room store. Rick Ball broke the marathon world record for a single leg amputee in Boston this year with a 3:01:50. One month later, he went on to break the 10K world record in Ottawa with 37:55.
Rick has only been running for two years and completed his very first marathon one year ago in 3:17.
He has been invited to the Canadian Paralympics Training Camp and will run for Canada at the 2012 Paralympic Games.
He has an incredible story. To learn more, visit his Facebook page.
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Knowing that I would be seeing Rick speak tonight [followed by dinner and drinks with some running friends], I had to run my 12K at some point during the day. I decided to break it up into two parts and ran 4K this morning at 6AM and another 8K over lunch. Doubles can be fun!
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Rick is a great story, I wish him luck in the future.
Also double workouts are one way of adding volume to your training without overdoing it all at once. I usually do it with different types of activity, i.e weights, swimming, biking, running.
Wow, totally amazing. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing story, and what a great opportunity to hear him speak! Well done fitting in the run! :)
Awesome! And what an inspiration :)
Very inspirational and motivating! Thanks for sharing!
Stories like that are so inspiring! thanks for sharing.
That's so cool. I hope he does well at the paralympic (while enjoying his experience of course!)
that is incredible that you got to hear from him. what an amazing person.
that is incredible that you got to hear from him. what an amazing person.
that is incredible that you got to hear from him. what an amazing person.
That must have been awesome to hear him speak! great job with the doubles! i still want to try that!
How cool, to meet a runner that has come so far in a short time!
Doubles are great right?! Why can't we just split the longer races up into two runs? haha
Inspiring!
Two-fers are an awesome way to fit it all in :)
Thanks for sharing. What a great story. He is super fast!
An amazing runner! Inspiring! Wish I could of heard him speak.
How awesome that you got to meet him and hear him speak!
How inspirational!!
he's definitely an inspiration! a 3:17 on his first shot is incredible enough alone! how cool that you go to meet him!!
Lucky you to meet Rick and hear his story!
i saw him there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love inspirational stories, and this is no exception. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing...so inspiring. I need to jump on the doubles bandwagon, seems everyone is doing them lately.
I've never run twice in a day before... I'm worried my legs will feel like lead if I do!
What a great story about Rick; very inspiring. He's so fast!
AMAZING! I will read up on him a little more on facebook!
I see this guy and I can only think: What's my excuse? None. Get back up and go again.
Wow, if that's not an inspiration, I don't know what is.
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