Jesse Thomas, winner of IRONMAN Lanzarote participates in a 5km race with crutches

The American Jesse Thomas,  who suffered an operation on his left foot last April for a fracture of stress, has not endured without competing and has sought a way to do it even with crutches and for a good cause.

He has participated in the race Wings for life , a test that is held every year on the first weekend of May simultaneously in various parts of the world, in order to raise funds for the Wings for life foundation in spinal cord research.

In social networks, published a few days ago where he announced his intention to participate in the test and you can see how he trained on the tape with crutches:

“I need a challenge to keep me hungry so trying to run a 5k for a good casula on Sunday morning in Seattle as part of @wflworldrun! “

 

See this post on Instagram

 

All prepped for my 5k crutch attempt for charity @wflworldrun. I've put in all the work I can (1 mile of practice on Tuesday, which I'm still a little sore from) and now I just have to see what the body gives me on the day. Best of luck to all joints and muscles particularly in my arms and hands and my right hip glute and quad. Course conditions and weather look ideal except just a little dark since it'll be 4 freaking AM. Hoping to make it 5k but reserving the right to pull the plug if something starts hurting a whole bunch. My hotel is 2.4 miles in to the course so thinking there's a very high likelihood that ends up being my distance, but also carrying my phone with me in case I need to Uber my sore Lycra ass back. Join me at 4am tomorrow at Gas Works Park if you're in Seattle! #flatbruce #lifepoints #whatamidoing #heregoesnothing #shouldersofsteelatleastihope

A shared publication of Jesse Thomas (@jessemthomas) the 4 May, 2019 at 9: 42 PDT

And after the race Jesse published: "5k made at 4 am this morning @WFLWorldRun Charity Run - 32: 43, maybe an unofficial world record? Hahaha. Definitely, in my different / crazy / silly ideas, I'm really sore, but happy to finish. "

5k Crutch at 4am this morning @WFLWorldRun Charity Run - 32:43, maybe unofficial world record? Hahaha. Definitely up there on my different / crazy / dumb ideas and gonna be real sore, but happy to finish. You can donate to support Spinal Cord research here https://t.co/TyOuD744Tt pic.twitter.com/fpuemsDeIr

- Jesse Thomas (@jessemthomas) May 5th 2019

The triathlete has completed the 5 km of course in a time of 32: 43