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| A trike (click here for info) |
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| A RaceRunner (explained below) |
RaceRunning is different for every athlete who experiences it. Mostly these experiences are on a scale of 'floaty happiness' to full on 'Braveheart (FREEEEDOMMMMM)'.
5 year olds who have never been able to run away from a parent before tend to leg it around the track the first time they get on one. Or nineteen year olds. Read about my first ever experience of sport by clicking here...
In official terms RaceRunning is a recreational activity and internationally competitive athletic discipline. It suits all athletes- especially those who have grown up in an electric wheelchair with quadriplegic cerebral palsy and also athletes like me who are wheelchair free for the time being but can't run.
It was recognised as an athletic discipline by World Para Athletics at the beginning of 2018 and begins its transition from the governance of CPISRA sport to World Para Athletics and the International Paralympic Committee. It will become the new T31-32 classes which are in place for athletes with severe coordination impairment disabilities. Those of us in the sport hope for a World Championships opportunity in 2019 and even a place in the Paris 2024 Paralympic bid. RaceRunning will make its debut at the 2018 European Championships held in Berlin.
Photo credits to John Clarke Russ
And in side profile if you can't quite believe your eyes...IWAS Junior Games 2014
Photo credits to WheelPower
Maybe stills are just not enough, glad we have moving pictures these days. Enter the boys (in the most able-bodied class):
Saving the best till last here's the dashing Hayla (in looks and running speed), modelling for the easily distracted cameraperson, she shows how to get from her electric wheelchair into her RaceRunner and how she smashes out her race:
All vids come from this youtube page.
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