Blind man plans to run 1000 miles for charity.

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Don't things like this just restore your faith in humanity again?
Dave Heeley, who is Blind (nick-named 'Blind Dave' Heeley, imiginative i know), is planning to run 10 marathons in 10 days.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14387984

Pretty awsome, my best lucks go out to this guy.
To add more, he plans on getting from Marathon to marathon using a bike!

So this guy is awsome.
And the charity he is doing this for is MacMillian Cancer Support.

 

[No_Remainders]

Don't things like this just restore your faith in humanity again?

Nope. Not by a long shot.

Yeah, it's great that he's doing it, well done to him and all that, it's fantastic.

However, that's one good deed measured up against (recently, at least) The Norway Bombing & Shootings, people caring more about the death of Amy Winehouse than the aforementioned Norway incident, and the riots in London.

Yeah, it'll take an awful lot to restore my faith in humanity.

 

[Pinkamena]

Wow. How the hell do you run a marathon when you're blind?

 

[Saelune]

Wont be so great if he hits someone. I have enough issues with people on bikes who CAN see.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Cool I guess. I've got 20/20 vision and I can't even run one marathon.

 

[nolongerhere]

Anyone else feel really tempted to stick a leg out as he runs past?

Anyway, that seems very impressive. 100 miles a day. Just ... wow.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

Don't things like this just restore your faith in humanity again?

Nope. Not by a long shot.

Yeah, it's great that he's doing it, well done to him and all that, it's fantastic.

However, that's one good deed measured up against (recently, at least) The Norway Bombing & Shootings, people caring more about the death of Amy Winehouse than the aforementioned Norway incident, and the riots in London.

Yeah, it'll take an awful lot to restore my faith in humanity.

I didn't mean it literally, but just try to cheer up.
This is still a lovely thing and he is a lovely person.
There is at least some chance, no matter how small it may be, of humankind redemption.

 

[Derpy the Mail Pony]

Yay!
This is one of the most lovely things i've read all day!

Muffins and hugs to this guy!
:3

This has cheered me up, thank you.
Do you know where i can donate to this?

 

[savandicus]

I'd like to point out he's only running 260 miles for charity and is infact biking the other 740 miles so the title to this thread is a little misleading. But it is very cool, certainly something that i will never achieve despite having two functioning eyes.

 

[antofdeath]

I swear i heard of him doing this last year as well...?

 

[DanielBrown]

Wow. How the hell do you run a marathon when you're blind?

Kind of wondering the same.
I haven't run very much the past 8 years due to an injury, but as far as I remember; running with your eyes closed really screws up the balance and makes you wobble around. Combine that with 10 marathons...
I might be wrong though.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I'd like to point out he's only running 260 miles for charity and is infact biking the other 740 miles so the title to this thread is a little misleading. But it is very cool, certainly something that i will never achieve despite having two functioning eyes.

yeah, while that is amazing, 1000 miles running? forest gump would be impressed by that feat.


i'm very interested to see how he's going to do it..

tl;dr

this is amazing, but title is misleading for sure.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Ok. I'm I a bad person for imagining a massive practical joke where his friends just put him on a treadmill, and turn on a fan and an ambient noise CD?

 

[Rawne1980]

Good luck to him on that.

Most of us here have good eyesight and couldn't manage it.

The rest of us have good eyesight and couldn't be arsed.

Hope he manages it, it's for a good cause aswell.

 

[omega 616]

Anyone else feel really tempted to stick a leg out as he runs past?

Anyway, that seems very impressive. 100 miles a day. Just ... wow.

Should see what Eddie Izzard did, that was impressive. A chubby male lesbian comic ran round the UK with no previous training....

Well done to the guy, can't exactly knock him for it. Shame more people don't do it, that being said I can't be bothered either.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Snip

Sizzle, as long as you're still inhabiting this rock, there's no hope for humanity.

Kidding, kidding. <3

Seriously, this guy deserves massive cookies. And I hope he manages to pull this off.

 

[savandicus]

I'd like to point out he's only running 260 miles for charity and is infact biking the other 740 miles so the title to this thread is a little misleading. But it is very cool, certainly something that i will never achieve despite having two functioning eyes.

yeah, while that is amazing, 1000 miles running? forest gump would be impressed by that feat.


i'm very interested to see how he's going to do it..

tl;dr

this is amazing, but title is misleading for sure.

Did you seriously just do tl:dr to get 27 words down to 9 words? The internet has really gone downhill if 27 words is too long for some people to read.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Wow. How the hell do you run a marathon when you're blind?

Kind of wondering the same.
I haven't run very much the past 8 years due to an injury, but as far as I remember; running with your eyes closed really screws up the balance and makes you wobble around. Combine that with 10 marathons...
I might be wrong though.

You use eyesight for balance all the time and he doesn't, makes it a whole lot simpler, as long as the road is flat you can run just fine.

But 1000 miles... damn that is no joke.

 

[hazabaza1]

"Blind man trips 10,000 times for charity" is more what I expect to happen.
Props to him though.