'If I see myself like the rest of these guys out there competing, who knows what you’ll be capable of.” - Roderick Sewell
in New York City, there was still big news to be shared that day. Amidst a chaotic schedule, the Ironman team had a short window to act and make another announcement., a double amputee who had made a name for himself on Team USA as a swimmer and dabbled in other endurance sports, including his first half Ironman in April. After speaking at other Ironman events before, he was invited to come out as Ironman was in his city, but he never expected what came next.
Sewell was one of them, and as he shook Messick’s hand to accept the offer, another thought came to his mind.. “I wasn’t expecting it at all, but when he told me I was going to be there, I was so excited and knew I wanted to start training immediately.” handcycle was not a muscle group he used often, but he had one thing in his favor: endurance. That’s been his specialty since he first got running blades as a 10-year-oldThe blades came with a high price tag, though. A single blade cost $50,000 at the time, and his mother raised him alone. For a son who needed a blade for each leg, the price was well out of reach. His mother filed for unemployment just to be able to get his prosthetics.
“I was terrified of the water,” Sewell said. “When I got into that, though, that’s when I realized I was a distance guy. I started late at 16, but I had a lot of fun in the water.”The pool is where Sewell thrived the most. When he moved to Alabama and ended up going to the University of North Alabama, Sewell joined various recreational leagues, and in a few years, he found himself on Team USA competing at the 2016 U.S. Paralympic Swim Trials and 2017 world championships.
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