Michael Ring, a Guillain-Barré syndrome patient is planning to run his 26th NYC marathon
Michael Ring was organizing a 100-mile bike tour in Putnam County in 2014 when he started falling, dropping things and tripping over stuff — it was happening so often that his then-boss took notice.
The Park Slope father of two was a senior at Sheepshead Bay High the first time he attempted the NYC marathon. A self-described “spaz,” he joined the track team to be able to skip gym class.“I went out too fast and then drank a lot of water in Queens and threw up off the Queensboro Bridge,” Ring shared, admitting he dropped out at mile 16.He gave up running but eventually got back into the sport in the early ’90s.
“If you take all people with Guillain-Barré, it’s usually said about 20% of people have a poor outcome, which we often define as being unable to walk unassisted at the six-month ,”, director of the Peripheral Neuropathy Center and co-director of the EMG laboratory at Columbia University Medical Center, told The Post.
“Doctors would ask me to wiggle my toes, and I’d look at the doctor, I said, ‘Why don’t you ask me to wiggle your toes?’ I just couldn’t. I’d look down at my feet, and they didn’t move,” Ring said.Ring finished last year’s NYC marathon in 8 hours, 36 minutes and 15 seconds, a pace of 19 minutes, 42 seconds per mile.Eventually, he was “clunking around” — now he wears carbon-fiber ankle braces because he has trouble lifting the front part of his feet. They also keep him from turning his ankles.
“My twins were 14 at the time. I want to be a role model. And she’s like, ‘Well, we got to figure out a different way for you to be a role model,'” he continued. “Now, I just figure, I got to show them that you might fall into a big hole, and you got to try to climb out.”
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