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Over the years we've welcomed thousands of runners to the TransRockies Run Family. Many of our runners have had to overcome huge obstacles just to reach the start line. This summer, Sarah Russell, a Clinical Exercise Specialist and running coach will join us from the United Kingdom. Check out her story below.
What's harder than childbirth? A 100-mile run through India with a colostomy bag.
- By Sarah Russell
As soon as I arrived at the starting line of the Himalayan 100 race, I was taken aside by a worried looking doctor. He was concerned that I wouldn't cope with the altitude and thought my hydration levels would plummet.
He had every right to be worried. Only two years before, I'd been in a London hospital High Dependency Unit wondering if I'd ever be able to eat again, let alone run 100 miles.
Because if there's one thing that's certain in life? It's that life is uncertain. And I certainly never imagined that one day I'd be living with a colostomy bag.
Rewind to June 2010. I was 37 and a mother of two, living in East Sussex. More than that, I was in perfect health and training for an Ironman triathlon. Then, out of the blue: disaster. I was rushed into hospital with a perforated bowel and a very serious episode of peritonitis; requiring emergency surgery to save my life.
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