About Me

 "No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."  - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Two years ago, I was in a 4 wheeling accident that left me paralyzed from the sternum down. The past two years of my life have been quite a roller coaster, from the first day I arrived home to this day which is day 772. I have reached every goal I have sought out after, but this next goal is huge! For the past 10 months I have been working out at my local gym in Asheville, NC. The only downside to being a paraplegic and working out at this gym, is there are three levels - one of which I am accessible too. There is a second floor that has a plethora of equipment and machines which is unaccessible to me...until recently.  Monday through Friday I would go in, do my little work out,  and go home.  But, a couple of weeks ago a man named [well, we will just call him] M started to work out within the hour that I was there. We talked a few times, him asking me what my goals were and if I had reached any of them yet. My answer to him was no I hadn't, but what he said to me next was a huge surprise. He wanted to train me to reach my goal.

Before my accident I was a very routine person. Get up, go to work, drink all night, and do the same thing day in and day out. After my accident, everything changed. I have gotten very involved in adaptive sports. For example: Hand cycling, water skiing, snow skiing, kayaking, soon tennis and whatever else I can get involved with.

The ASAP (Adaptive Sports and Adventure Program in Charlotte,NC) hosts Cycle to the Sea, which is a 3 day 180 mile bike ride from Charlotte, NC to Myrtle Beach, SC. After being injured for a little over 2 years now, I am determined to do this ride all the way through and that is where M comes in. He has agreed to donate his time and efforts to get me where I need to be for this ride. This blog was created to update and see the difference. Every two weeks I will take a picture of my upper body and talk about the workouts that I am doing so that hopefully you can be able to reach your goals as well and go above and beyond your expectations.

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke