bigDman

this story is amazing and shows the will power of human beings...this guy is amazing...god bless him.





From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
>
> I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay
>for
>
> their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
>
> But compared with Dick Hoyt, I stink.
>
> Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
>
> marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a
>wheelchair
>
> but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him
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> 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
>
> Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
>
> mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes
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> taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
>
> And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
>
> This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was
>
> strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged
>
> and unable to control his limbs.
>
> ``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him
>
> and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an
>
> institution.''
>
> But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
>followed
>
> them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering
>
> department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help
>the
>
> boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing
>
> going on in his brain.''
>
> "Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a
>
> lot was going on in his brain.
>
> Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by
>
> touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to
>
> communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school
>classmate
>
> was paralyzed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for
>
> him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want to do that.''
>
> Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran more
>
> than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried.
>
> ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore for two
>
> weeks.''
>
> That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running,
>
> it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''
>
> And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving
>Rick
>
> that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that
>
> he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
>
> ``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a
>
> single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few
>
> years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then
>
> they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran
>
> another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the
>
> following year.
>
> Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''
>
> How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he
>
> was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick
>
> tried.
>
> Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans
>
> in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed
>
> by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?
>
> Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says.
>Dick
>
> does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with a
>
> cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
>
> This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston
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> Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best
>
> time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world
>
> record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to
>
> be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the
>
> time.
>
> ``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the
>
> Century.''
>
> And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a
>
> mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries
>
> was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' one doctor
>
> told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.''
>
> So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
>
> Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston,
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> and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always
>
> find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
>
> compete in some backbreaking race every > weekend, including this
>Father's
>
> Day.
>
> That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants
>to
>
> give him is a gift he can never buy.
>
> ``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the
>chair
>
> and I push him once.''

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wow

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Aww.

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wow, thats so awesome. 35 minutes off of the record while pushing his son.

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