For runners, January marks a new season of training, with spring races looming just months away. For blind runners — and there are many of them — there are challenges, including finding guides for ...
The glasses allowed human coach, ultra-marathoner Scott Jurek, to watch the race through Panek’s sight line, allowing him to provide coaching and guidance from his home in Colorado. Panek, who has ...
WEST SAND LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — Social distancing rules can make exercising a challenge for a blind runner who needs a volunteer tethered as a guide. But Thomas Panek has no problem because his running ...
As Thomas Panek strode through the third mile of the NYC Half Marathon in March, world champion ultramarathoner Scott Jurek was in the blind runner’s ear. “OK, you’re on a hill now,” Jurek told Panek.
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Samuel Lopez is a volunteer with the nonprofit organization Catapult. Lopez was paired with Robert Peck, a young blind man who knew no boundaries. "He wanted me to teach him to swim ...
Richard Harlow, became the first runner, who is blind, to finish the half marathon at Run Saysutshun, near Nanaimo, this past ...
A blind runner in East Sussex has praised his local Parkrun for its accessibility, saying it has helped transform his life. Keith Turner, 58, from Brighton, went fully blind at 19 from congenital ...