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UTICA – Amanda McGrory – seven-time Paralympic Games medalist – makes a lot of kilometers when she coaches for a wheelchair race
The 32-year-old athlete s'. leads ten times in six days. Each session consists of about 13-18 miles, she said, with 20-25 miles on Saturday.
"We'll go anywhere from 100 to 120 miles a week," said McGrory, who has trained at the Olympic training. Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado
McGrory also incorporates a gymnastic routine – consisting of medicine ball exercises, ski lifts and shoulders – two to three times during the off season, which falls primarily during the months of 39; winter. On Sunday, the resident of Savoy, Illinois, will return to Utica for once again participating in the Boilermaker Road race. She will join a group of 44 wheelchair racers, which includes a record nine women.
McGrory was home on the Boilermaker course. She won everyone she participated in. She is 6-in-6 in the Boilermaker, including last year's win with a record time of 37 minutes, 40 seconds.
The title of last year was his fifth and sixth in seven years.
Daniel Romanchuk, of Urbana, Ill., Won the men's division by winning his second title in as many years.
"It's a very nice race," said Boilermaker's McGrory, saying the atmosphere is completely different from the major races she's competed in, including the New York and Boston Marathons. "There is something in small towns, and people are behind."
McGrory began wheelchair racing in 1997 after a rare neuro-immune disorder caused some paralysis. She accepted a scholarship in wheelchair basketball at the University of Illinois and hoped to make sport a career. However, she was "corrupted" in a marathon in 2008, where she found her place.
She made her first national team in 2006 and participated in her first Boilermaker in 2012.
"I would like to go to a" Geoffrey McGregory, who watched Tokyo in 2020.
Krige Schabort, 55 , also won the Boilermaker six times.Because of his age, he had to change training in recent years.
"It's not easy to follow the youth," he says [19659014] Unlike McGrory, who sets up sprints and interval training, Schabort Frequency Training and Endurance.
Schabort called the Boilermaker as a race with "hills and more hills. "
" The race begins with hills, "he said." You are going as hard as you can, you want to separate. "
Schabort – native to South Africa – was injured while serving in the army of his country in 1988. The army used the 39 Athletics to help with rehabilitation The wounded soldiers and the government provided Schabort with a racing wheelchair.
"Slowly and surely, I became more involved," he said. "I like it."
The wheelchair race – a race in a race – starts at 7:45 on Sunday – 15 minutes before the 15K Boilermaker riders take off on Culver Avenue.
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