It starts with the Ironman Ride, and ends with the Twin Cities Marathon. In between are the half-doze
n or so events I work as a bike medic, split about 50-50 between cycling events and running/triathlon races. I don't work nearly as many as I used to. There was a time, in the years between Anoka County Parks and the Minnesota DNR, when I worked a different event almost every weekend. Even so, I seem to be continually asked to work more. I would love to help them all out, and indeed I try to...If I cannot be there myself, I try to have other patrol members there. When there are not enough patrollers, our Wilderness First Responder graduates have started pitching in. We manage to get the job done most of the time.
Next to teaching first aid almost every week, I think working these events, particularly the Marathon and it's related smaller events, have really broadened my knowledge of emergency and sports medicine. I can number among my friends, doctors with international reputations in sports and athletic medicine. Good friends to have when you get hurt as often as I do.
Now I am starting to pay it back, and forward, by extending the basic and wilderness first aid I instruct to the missions field. We have sent a excellent water filter to our friends at "Travel the Road" and we have a mountain bike looking for a Christian missionary who could use it to reach the unreached. That, and washing the feet and patching the blisters of the athletes we meet at these events.
Proceeding on...
Trailpatrol
n or so events I work as a bike medic, split about 50-50 between cycling events and running/triathlon races. I don't work nearly as many as I used to. There was a time, in the years between Anoka County Parks and the Minnesota DNR, when I worked a different event almost every weekend. Even so, I seem to be continually asked to work more. I would love to help them all out, and indeed I try to...If I cannot be there myself, I try to have other patrol members there. When there are not enough patrollers, our Wilderness First Responder graduates have started pitching in. We manage to get the job done most of the time.Next to teaching first aid almost every week, I think working these events, particularly the Marathon and it's related smaller events, have really broadened my knowledge of emergency and sports medicine. I can number among my friends, doctors with international reputations in sports and athletic medicine. Good friends to have when you get hurt as often as I do.
Now I am starting to pay it back, and forward, by extending the basic and wilderness first aid I instruct to the missions field. We have sent a excellent water filter to our friends at "Travel the Road" and we have a mountain bike looking for a Christian missionary who could use it to reach the unreached. That, and washing the feet and patching the blisters of the athletes we meet at these events.
Proceeding on...
Trailpatrol
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