GUIDE DOGS HELPING BLIND RUNNERS STAY FIT DESPITE PANDEMIC
Jul 31, 2020
3 minutes
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 guide, Blaze, is a Labrador retriever.
“I’m doing all the things a person would normally do, except I’m doing it with the help of a best friend who happens to be 77 pounds of love wrapped in soft yellow fur,” Panek said.
Panek, a blind runner with a wall full of ribbons from marathons he ran with
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