The 51-year-old from Texas is still going strong even after a motorcycle accident, and he’s lost 100 pounds in the process.
in 2012—the Conquer Hunger 5K in Lubbock, Texas. Raegan ran it with him, staying by his side the entire time.
“It was incredible to do that together, and I was pretty slow, but I felt a sense of accomplishment,” he said. “Crossing the finish line together was something I never pictured that I’d ever do, and now we’ve crossed so many, and I know we have many more to come.”But a month after that first 5K, Young experienced a major setback when he was in a motorcycle accident that left him in a wheelchair for months.
The process of learning to walk—and then run—again was “brutal,” Young said. He underwent an intensive type of physical therapy calledthat helped speed up his recovery, and much like he did at the beginning of his running journey, he took it slow and steady. He was able to get back to running a mile by January 2013, and he and Raegan were determined to run the Conquer Hunger 5K again and cross the finish line together a second time. They did—and they even beat their previous time.
“We have spent hours struggling together, especially after that accident, and when one of us was tired or unmotivated, the other one would work extra hard to be motivating,” he said. “It took a month after getting out of the wheelchair to get to the point where I didn’t feel like a disaster. But fortunately, I had Coach Raegan to get me through it.”in 2014, Young had lost nearly 100 pounds and was running consistently.
—running at least a mile every single day—in November 2016 that’s still going strong, more than three years later.
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