'I want to finish strong': Veteran with spinal cord injury to return to BOLDERBoulder this year.
AURORA, Colo. — With just one week until the 2023 BOLDERBoulder, many are getting their final training sessions in before the big day. This is true for Mark Maloney, who did one final lap Monday with his trainers at the VA Medical Center in Aurora. He has been looking toward this BOLDERBoulder for a long time coming.
Maloney has action in his DNA. He’s an Army veteran, having served in Vietnam, and climbed the ranks of the military with his logistics work. He has also long been an athlete, with more runs and races under his belt than he can keep track. “Something went wrong. I’ll never know for sure. I think it may have been low blood pressure, because my eyes closed. And then when I woke up, I felt like I was in ‘The Twilight Zone.’ I tried to apply my brakes, because I was heading for a series of rocks. And that didn’t work,” Maloney recalled. “The last thing I remember was hitting a huge boulder, smack in the face.”
Our medical system has taken many steps forward for spinal cord injury patients, like Maloney, and the team at the VA Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury Unit has spent much of the last three years working with him to regain whatever movement he can in his legs and feet.
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