The World Motivation
Despite hanging up my racing wheels over a decade ago, I still get a buzz when we enter an Olympic and Paralympic year.
“Despite hanging up my racing wheels over a decade ago, I still get a buzz when we enter an Olympic and Paralympic year.”
Despite hanging up my racing wheels over a decade ago, I still get a buzz when we enter an Olympic and Paralympic year.
The thing most disabled people cite when they are seriously or terminally ill is not the pain, not the suffering - it's being a burden.
Disability sport came about largely because of exclusion, because mainstream sport didn't want disabled people to be part of it.
I first competed for Great Britain in wheelchair racing in 1987 and for twenty years after that. For me, the passion came from the fact that I really loved competing and training to be better. And of course - like most sportspeople - I really wanted to win.
And, for me, there is a passion in managing or coaching, whether it is working on a training ground or dealing with a 16-year-old who has a problem I can help him out with. I get quite a buzz from that.
I feel like the X Division, when it first started out, it was the thing that made TNA different than everything else that was on the scene. It was also the thing that brought a lot of the buzz around TNA in the very beginning.
I've been part of the EDC scene for a long time. It's one of the best festivals in the world and a real buzz to be there and to play.
Buzz has reduced my range. Running safely with him means using fewer and shorter routes, with multiple laps per day or multiple returns there per week. Neither of us minds repeating ourselves. This is what runners do.
Perhaps we need to redefine our idea of role models; they're not always elite athletes whose success might seem too distant or unachievable. Sometimes it's our friend who just smashed her first 10k, or our Zumba teacher who is enthusiastic, encouraging and real.