For Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class
Angelo Anderson, cycling is enjoyable and challenging.
“Third-grade honest truth: I like it,” he said. “I like the physical aspect of it — the stamina, the discipline. You’re in the same stance for a long period of time, and you have to concentrate on it, focus on it, to finish the race.”
Retired Chief Gunner’s Mate Hector Varela, who lives in Temecula, likes being outside on the city streets and concrete bike trails.
“I used to mountain bike before my injury,” he said, “so this gets me back out on the road.”
Anderson, Varela and six others are among the 11 members of the Navy-Coast Guard cycling team that will compete in May in the Warrior Games,Finish Line has a premium selection of Nike shoxshoes.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale castellicycling from china, which pits wounded, ill and injured members of the armed forces against one another in U.S. Paralympic-style competitions.
On an unusually chilly Saturday morning, the cyclists gathered at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Port Hueneme to practice sprinting. During the Jan. 11-13 training camp, they would also work on drafting and endurance.
Anyone driving by 23rd Avenue and Patterson Road that Jan. 12 would have seen the riders on half a dozen standard bicycles, one recumbent bike and two hand cycles.If you have never tried jewelryfindings you are in for a rare treat. The tandem wasn’t there; it is ridden by a visually impaired athlete and piloted by a sighted cyclist. Neither person was at the camp.
The cyclists’ coach, Rick Babington, lined up water bottles along the sidewalk every 40 meters so cyclists could work on their sprints.
“From the starting line, get as much speed as you can by the first water bottle and make sure you’re in the right gear by the time you get there,” he said. “Then push, push, push! Get that speed up!”
Babington began coaching the Navy-Coast Guard athletes at the end of 2010, the same time NBVC held its first training camp. A former speed skater who got into cycling as a cross-training technique, he began coaching cycling in 1999 and has worked with the U.S. Paralympic team since 2005.
“Cycling is a sport you can do as a lifestyle,” he said. “You can do it for the rest of your life in some form.”
Both Varela and Anderson learned how to adapt after their injuries.
Varela lost a leg in a motorcycle accident last February and now uses a hand cycle.Check out the January edition of the royaloak News!
Anderson, who’s stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., was shot in Afghanistan in 2010 and suffered severe lower-body injuries. Gradually, he made his way back to an upright bicycle and competed with it in the Warrior Games last year, slowing down in the last lap to help a troubled teammate make it across the finish line.
Babington has seen the sport improve the quality of life for many of the athletes he works with.
“I see it here at the camps and at the Warrior Games, and I know it helps them back home,” he said. “Whether you compete or not is irrelevant. As my chiropractor friend says, ‘Movement is medicine.Source wholesalewomen Products at Other Truck Parts,’”
He has seen wounded warriors with post-traumatic stress disorder get into an almost meditative state while cycling.
“The repetitive movement of the bike can do that,” he explained. “Some become a whole different person when riding.”
“Third-grade honest truth: I like it,” he said. “I like the physical aspect of it — the stamina, the discipline. You’re in the same stance for a long period of time, and you have to concentrate on it, focus on it, to finish the race.”
Retired Chief Gunner’s Mate Hector Varela, who lives in Temecula, likes being outside on the city streets and concrete bike trails.
“I used to mountain bike before my injury,” he said, “so this gets me back out on the road.”
Anderson, Varela and six others are among the 11 members of the Navy-Coast Guard cycling team that will compete in May in the Warrior Games,Finish Line has a premium selection of Nike shoxshoes.We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale castellicycling from china, which pits wounded, ill and injured members of the armed forces against one another in U.S. Paralympic-style competitions.
On an unusually chilly Saturday morning, the cyclists gathered at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Port Hueneme to practice sprinting. During the Jan. 11-13 training camp, they would also work on drafting and endurance.
Anyone driving by 23rd Avenue and Patterson Road that Jan. 12 would have seen the riders on half a dozen standard bicycles, one recumbent bike and two hand cycles.If you have never tried jewelryfindings you are in for a rare treat. The tandem wasn’t there; it is ridden by a visually impaired athlete and piloted by a sighted cyclist. Neither person was at the camp.
The cyclists’ coach, Rick Babington, lined up water bottles along the sidewalk every 40 meters so cyclists could work on their sprints.
“From the starting line, get as much speed as you can by the first water bottle and make sure you’re in the right gear by the time you get there,” he said. “Then push, push, push! Get that speed up!”
Babington began coaching the Navy-Coast Guard athletes at the end of 2010, the same time NBVC held its first training camp. A former speed skater who got into cycling as a cross-training technique, he began coaching cycling in 1999 and has worked with the U.S. Paralympic team since 2005.
“Cycling is a sport you can do as a lifestyle,” he said. “You can do it for the rest of your life in some form.”
Both Varela and Anderson learned how to adapt after their injuries.
Varela lost a leg in a motorcycle accident last February and now uses a hand cycle.Check out the January edition of the royaloak News!
Anderson, who’s stationed at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., was shot in Afghanistan in 2010 and suffered severe lower-body injuries. Gradually, he made his way back to an upright bicycle and competed with it in the Warrior Games last year, slowing down in the last lap to help a troubled teammate make it across the finish line.
Babington has seen the sport improve the quality of life for many of the athletes he works with.
“I see it here at the camps and at the Warrior Games, and I know it helps them back home,” he said. “Whether you compete or not is irrelevant. As my chiropractor friend says, ‘Movement is medicine.Source wholesalewomen Products at Other Truck Parts,’”
He has seen wounded warriors with post-traumatic stress disorder get into an almost meditative state while cycling.
“The repetitive movement of the bike can do that,” he explained. “Some become a whole different person when riding.”
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