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#111 Race Report: my very first event as a para-athlete!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 30/01/202130/01/2021
  • amputation

I can’t even begin to tell you how emotional this day was on so many levels. Putting myself back into the sporting circles I once competed in as an able bodied athlete made me so […]

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#110 Road Trip: preparing for my first event as a para-athlete!

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 29/01/2021
  • amputation

I’m so excited, scared… such a mixture of emotions. I think it’s the para-unknown. I remember a disabled athlete friend saying to me a while back how you have to learn real fast to put […]

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#98 How to keep a prosthetic leg on

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 17/01/2021
  • amputation

There’s a lot of ways to attach body parts, I bet it isn’t something you have ever thought of before… and they give you huge issues when it’s warm weather!

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#95 Dealing with the disabled – done properly

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 13/01/202113/01/2021
  • amputation

Today was leg day 1/3. Casting this week, test socket next week, actual leg the week after that. But.. I want to give the staff and general public at Dunedin’s St Clair salt water pool […]

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#91 The procrastination station and how I dealt with it.

  • by Melanie Ryding
  • Posted on 09/01/2021
  • amputation

Yeah, we all hit those days when you face a wall of CBA.. know you should motivate that booty but just don’t… well here’s how I got past that today.

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