From Sight Loss To Paralympics And Now Ultra Running With Peter Ryan

Peter Ryan was an up and coming local athlete in Irelands National Sports but his world came crashing down around him when he was diagnosed with Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, a genetically inherited form of vision loss which left him legally blind with less than 10 per cent vision. After a couple of dark years, Ryan eventually accepted his new circumstances and found direction in his life again. Sport had largely defined the person he was before he lost his sight and once again it became his north star. After impressing with his testing score on a watt bike for a Paralympics open day in 2012, he was placed on a fast-track programme and just six months later was a national tandem cycling champion. He went on to compete in the Rio paralympics in 2016. Now Peter takes on another epic challenge, running the length of Ireland, a 586 kilometre route in just five days and his conversation with Anthony is inspirational and up-lifting. Pillar Performance If you're ready to elevate your performance and sleep quality, why not give PILLAR a try, head to pillarperformance.shop and use the code Roadman on your local website for 15% off your first order.  Or for US listeners, head to TheFeed.com/pillar and use code Roadman for the same 15% off your first order. MyWhoosh Get started on the cycling platform everyone is talking about. It has all the features of its competitors plus more. I'm loving the new "Belgian World" . It's completely free to get started. Go to https://www.mywhoosh.com/ Wattbike Wattbike is the only brand I trust for my indoor training needs. Head on over to ⁠wattbike.com⁠ and use roadman10 you'll get 10% off the Wattbike Atom Factor Bikes Today's show is brought to you with special thanks to our amazing on-going sponsors ⁠⁠Factor Bikes⁠⁠  Silca Go to www.silca.cc and use ROADMAN13 at checkout to get 13% off your purchase The heart beat of our community & best place to reach me is ⁠⁠Twitter ⁠⁠ Want to watch full interviews on video? Check out our new Youtube Channel ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/roadmancycling?sub_confirmation=1⁠⁠ Our full back catalogue of episodes⁠⁠ https://anchor.fm/roadman-cycling-podcast⁠⁠ My gift to you is 14 days of free coaching. To Claim your gift go to ⁠⁠www.roadmancycling.com/14daygift⁠⁠ Support this podcast by buying me a beer ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/anthony_walsh⁠⁠