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Trail running. Freeze action closeup of man running

Meet Simon Wheatcroft, the blind ultramarathon runner

Source: The Guardian

Simon Wheatcroft didn’t let a degenerative eye disease get in the way of achieving what seemed to others like an impossible endurance task of running a 100-mile race!

This entry was posted in Bold Actions and tagged People on August 1, 2016 by annettebrennan.

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