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RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE

It usually takes up to a year just to return to “day to day” activities but I was about to run 160km in the Ultra-Trail Drakensberg (UTD). I felt like I had achieved something huge, just by standing at the starting line – it was just 14 months since Iʼd had my right leg amputated below the knee.

Itʼs crazy how far Iʼve come since my bike accident in March 2020. It was surreal; I went to hospital, came out a few days later, but in the meantime the country had gone into hard lockdown.

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