Slowman wrote:
Tom_hampton wrote:
Does anyone know the story of Qsk8 Keshti? #2 on the board...his log entries all say "Cancer Challenged Athlete".
as it happens, i just got off the phone with him. pretty big story to that fellow. among other things, 6x winner of the lake tahoe marathon, and pretty much unbeatable at any run race if the race took place at or above lake tahoe. came down to the carlsbad 5000 once, in his 40s, and won the masters race in 14-something. in teva sandals. a regional legend as a nordic racer in the tahoe scene. he was an all-season skyrunner/freeheel savant a generation before it was a *thing* with killian jornet and his ilk. got cancer in his spine. was in hospice twice waiting to die. legs shriveled below the waist, like a wheelchair racer. then, well, he didn't die. obviously. started to get feeling back in his legs, little by little and the rest is history, including the history he's yet to make. his cancer is incurable, as of now. perpetual chemotherapy. he's still very much hobbled by his prior full paralysis below the waist, and still only partial recovery from that. i can't swear that all his runs are rules-conforming.
but in his particular case, for those workouts that aren't, i'm bestowing a pardon, trumplike.
I dispute the "trumplike"---but, lets not go down that rabbit hole, here. However, I don't dispute the justifiableness of the "pardon" if one is even required.
That's exactly why I phrased the question the way that I did. I checked his posting history here, and looked at his strava a bit. What little I could find led me to deduce that it might be something along the lines of what you have laid out.
I saw on his strava that his "equipment used" was listed as teva sandles, which I found odd. Now I know why.
That's an astonishing and inspirational story. Thanks for sharing. It would be great if he could / would tell the rest of it.