It took Currier six years to work his way out of the deep funk that followed a C-6 spinal cord injury, the light at the proverbial end of the tunnel being exposed to the National Wheelchair Games. Not long after returning from deployment to Iraq in 2003 in the early days of the Iraq War, to Camp Pendleton, he was in an accident and paralyzed. Marine, knows the road in an intimate way.
The harder but better choice is to find a way to "force yourself to choose to go over it or through it."Ĭurrier, a U.S. When confronted with an obstacle, in life or on a racecourse, rather than go right at an obstacle the “the easiest choice is to go around it,” Currier says on the podcast. They discuss a number of invaluable ideas in this episode of the Spartan Up podcast, from adopting the right perspective when taking on a problem to having the courage to ask for help when you need it. That's the philosophy that Currier, Lopez and Granville, Oscar Mike team members, adhere to. Let's unite under a shared vision of camaraderie to help those who need us most. It's time to practice what we preach, Spartans. And even if you're not quite ready to race (though we highly recommend it), you can still change a veterans life by making a donation to the Oscar Mike Foundation, and you’ll entered into the running to win the one-of-a-kind Spartan chopper.
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The Oscar Mike crew will be a presence at each 2018 Spartan Honor Series events, executing on their purpose of helping fellow veterans make and sustain the transition to being athletes.
But ultimately they went through them.Įssentially, the mission of both Oscar Mike and Operation Enduring Warrior is to help struggling veterans make the transition to a purposeful, healthy life. In the modern parlance, they were quintessential "adaptive athletes." Their initial injuries presented enormous obstacles that would have been easy to back away from. In the backstory of both Moleda and Bailey, you found two people who had to work through a vast amount of physical, mental and emotional challenge to reestablish their identities as athletes. I recalled the Moleda/Bailey rivalry when listening to Noah Currier, Jonathan Lopez and Earl Granville talk about the Oscar Mike Foundation and Operation Enduring Warrior. In their third pain-fest, Bailey was able to outlast Moleda to finish racing in Kona with a win. A painful outcome that inspired Bailey to “get bloody” as Jacobs had advised. In a second hellish battle the following year, Moleda once again thumped Bailey. In their first encounter at the Hawaii Ironman, Moleda beat Bailey, the favorite, by nearly an hour. ‘Do you understand who it is you’re messing with here? If you want to beat this guy, you’re going to have to get bloody.’” I guess a day at Ironman isn’t so bad once you’ve been shot at with machine guns. He didn’t avoid fear he went straight for it. “He was someone who didn’t seek out the cleanest lines, like David did, but who went right through the darkness. “Carlos was a former Navy SEAL, and a complete badass,” Jacobs said. Jacobs knew about Moleda and was concerned Bailey didn’t know what he was getting himself into. The rivalry began when Bailey set his sights on competing in the Hawaii Ironman and asked a former pro, Todd Jacobs, to train him. They made the wheelchairs and handcycles seem incidental.
There dedication, discipline and toughness were the thing you noticed. They were Ironman triathletes, and two of the best racing in those years. Rather, Moleda, a Navy SEAL who had been shot and paralyzed in Operation Just Cause in 1989, and Bailey, a motocross star paralyzed in a 1987 preseason accident in Lake Huron, Calif., transcended the division they competed in. These were not simply remarkable Challenged-division participants in a hard, harsh endurance event. But the three years that Carlos Moleda and David Bailey beat the living hell out of each other in over-the-red-line races in Kona helped mark a shift in definition. Athletes in wheelchairs had become a common sight in races like the Boston Marathon. A great rivalry in the world of endurance sports took place in the late 1990s in the Hawaii Ironman.
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