My biggest setback is needing to rely on someone else to reach the training area. I could probably have walked to the dojo before it moved, but I didn’t know the way; seeing as I actually got up early enough for the morning session, this was just frustrating (I did once try going anyway, but my GPS is terrible).
I knew someone in high school who wound up obtaining some weighted training equipment—arm/wrist bands, a vest, etc… think Dragonball Z. And that was quite enough to get him frequently running the local “mountain” (The threshold for mountain status in this area … well, the John Wane version of True Grit was supposedly hilarious due to using the Rockies as a stand-in for glorified hills.)
I took a judo class one semester. I got an absessed toe halfway through, so the person driving me there decided it was better that I not attend until it got better. … The blatant display of pacing it took to convince him it was better… blah.
There’s a lot I could do, athletically speaking, if people/places/my ability to travel to places were better. The one I’m still worried about is running; I almost never get to run at full speed, because I can’t detect incoming obstacles (and being over 16 takes away the wolverine-like healing ability and replaces it with height as a torque amplifier). In fifth and sixth grade, I was often one of the last people to finish laps around the gym, even though I once managed to outrun the observed fastest student in the class in a slightly less crowded-and-lined-with-equipment environment. And that was when cutting corners and with better (but still braille-bound) vision compared to today.
(The afore-mentioned weighted training clothes guy once joined me and the astronomy class on a trip to another local “mountain”, and the two of us decided to run up rather than hang back with everyone else. He observed that I was faster than him, but he had better stamina. You might be wondering what a blind person was doing on an astronomy trip, which is a very good question, but now this comment is 2KB long.)
While sports for blind athletes, like goalball, exist, not living in a city and having to rely on cars sounds like a huge obstacle. I have no idea what to recommend. I suppose you already tried the obvious i.e. getting together with other visually impaired people living nearby, forming a club a exploring activities together, but I suppose this did not work due to the low pop density. If you could not find a sighted running buddy who would warn you of obstacles then I suppose there are other problems here of which I have no idea so I should rather not try to give advice that may turn out to be bad.
My biggest setback is needing to rely on someone else to reach the training area. I could probably have walked to the dojo before it moved, but I didn’t know the way; seeing as I actually got up early enough for the morning session, this was just frustrating (I did once try going anyway, but my GPS is terrible).
I knew someone in high school who wound up obtaining some weighted training equipment—arm/wrist bands, a vest, etc… think Dragonball Z. And that was quite enough to get him frequently running the local “mountain” (The threshold for mountain status in this area … well, the John Wane version of True Grit was supposedly hilarious due to using the Rockies as a stand-in for glorified hills.)
I took a judo class one semester. I got an absessed toe halfway through, so the person driving me there decided it was better that I not attend until it got better. … The blatant display of pacing it took to convince him it was better… blah.
There’s a lot I could do, athletically speaking, if people/places/my ability to travel to places were better. The one I’m still worried about is running; I almost never get to run at full speed, because I can’t detect incoming obstacles (and being over 16 takes away the wolverine-like healing ability and replaces it with height as a torque amplifier). In fifth and sixth grade, I was often one of the last people to finish laps around the gym, even though I once managed to outrun the observed fastest student in the class in a slightly less crowded-and-lined-with-equipment environment. And that was when cutting corners and with better (but still braille-bound) vision compared to today.
(The afore-mentioned weighted training clothes guy once joined me and the astronomy class on a trip to another local “mountain”, and the two of us decided to run up rather than hang back with everyone else. He observed that I was faster than him, but he had better stamina. You might be wondering what a blind person was doing on an astronomy trip, which is a very good question, but now this comment is 2KB long.)
While sports for blind athletes, like goalball, exist, not living in a city and having to rely on cars sounds like a huge obstacle. I have no idea what to recommend. I suppose you already tried the obvious i.e. getting together with other visually impaired people living nearby, forming a club a exploring activities together, but I suppose this did not work due to the low pop density. If you could not find a sighted running buddy who would warn you of obstacles then I suppose there are other problems here of which I have no idea so I should rather not try to give advice that may turn out to be bad.