I’m in a local road running series, score 7 best races plus participation points. If I was on crutches late in the year and needed more points I’d cover the distance on crutches for them haha.

Why? If you can't run or walk without crutches, why not do something else? Swim or bike.

I remember about 20 years ago at Wildflower in the Olympic distance race, Emilio DeSoto was able to swim and bike but had to use crutches to get around due to some injury or whatever. So he did the run with his crutches. This was obviously before the advent of Aqua Bike division at races. Think he still did pretty good overall.

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A bike and access to a pool is expensive. I see a few poor people in Tijuana competing on crutches

When I was an undergraduate and again in grad school I dated a woman named Linda Down who had been on crutches her whole life, along with her sister Laura; the cause was some congenital disorder I no longer remember the details of. They could move along on them at a rapid clip on most surfaces; faster than many people walked. Walking without crutches was possible for short distances but extremely awkward. Linda would go on to run the New York City marathon entirely on crutches in 1982; she was the first person ever to do so.

https://guideposts.org/...ng/running-on-faith/

As the story concludes -

"The next morning I was shocked to learn I’d been invited to join Alberto Salazar and Grete Waitz, the winners of that year’s marathon, at the White House to be congratulated by President Reagan. It turned out that I was the first woman ever to finish the marathon on crutches."

I've completed sprint to Ironman on crutches, really enjoyed myself too

I could have done with some crutches after Alpr de Huez tri. Does that count?