At the age of 63, the blind man started running
"I want to know what it's like to run"
"Shiling is a well-known massage master." "I often see him shopping for vegetables alone." "Uncle Luo is completely blind, and he has been around Qinglong Lake every day for several years." "He is a fierce man and is addicted to exercise."... …
As soon as the video was uploaded to Douyin, people nearby would comment after seeing it.
They recognized the uncle running with a blind cane in the video: Luo Jiuxing, 63 years old this year, was blind when he was around 24 years old.
In the Spring Festival of 2018, Luo Jiuxing went to Qinglong Lake Wetland Park for the first time, and it took more than an hour from home to the entrance of the park.
He went there more than a dozen times later, and finally got a map in his mind.
After walking in the park for more than two years, in the middle of last month, Luo Jiuxing decided to run, "I want to know what it's like to run."
the first time
I went to the park from home and walked for more than an hour
If you are located near the Qinglong Lake Wetland Park, turning on Douyin may be pushed to such a video: Someone in the park is running, and a jogging uncle comes opposite, holding an umbrella in his left hand, and a jacket taken off by the heat under his arm. , With a blind stick in his right hand, when he reached the ground and grass, it made a rubbing sound.
"Uncle, do you have bad eyes?" the photographer asked.
The uncle stopped: "Hey, hello." The photographer encouraged him: "Keep on running." In this video more than ten days ago, the uncle was calm and calm when the photographer had a conversation with the uncle.
Soon, everyone who knew the uncle came to leave a message.
"Uncle Luo is completely blind, and he has circled Qinglong Lake every day for several years." "He is a fierce man and is addicted to exercise."...
"My name is Luo Jiuxing, I am 63 years old this year, and I have bad eyes." Sitting in his massage shop, Uncle Luo said to the reporter with a stern look.
He told reporters that because of diabetes, the cornea of his eyes fell off.
He got excited when he mentioned the topic of the park.
"When I was running that day, someone greeted me and said he wanted to take a video of me and post it on the Internet, hahaha..." He told reporters that he had only been running for more than a month. "Last It only started in the middle of the month." Earlier, he just went for a walk in the park.
Luo Jiuxing grew up in Shiling. “The area around the tomb of the king of Shu and Qinglong Lake used to be farmland, and we went to school nearby.” As time passed, he was going to visit Qinglong Lake Wetland Park in the Spring Festival of 2018.
He inquired about the route and walked from home to the subway "Chengdu University" station. There was a traffic light in the middle-the road on Shiling Street was so familiar to him that he couldn't be more familiar.
"Go through the subway station and go to the wetland park opposite." Luo Jiuxing told reporters that when he arrived at the subway station, a security guard spotted him, "protect me to the exit at the other end."
"Ask people all the way." Luo Jiuxing entered the park. "I don't know how to walk in the park. Fortunately, there are a lot of people during the Spring Festival, so I follow the crowd and ask when I don't understand." Luo Jiuxing still remembers, although there is no Few enthusiastic people helped, but it took me more than an hour to get from home to the park.
The Qinglong Lake explored by the cane is no longer what he looked like when he was in his teens.
He fumbled for more than ten times before finally having a new "map package" in his mind.
"Out of the subway station, go left, walk 180 steps to the entrance of the park, first go up 6 steps, go forward, then 6 steps, enter the gate and walk 10 meters to find the lawn... When I reach the No. 1 dam, I can I'm on the road around Qinglong Lake..."
This time
He decided to run: "I want to know the taste of running"
"I have to go there at least 3 times a week." Luo Jiuxing told reporters that the store will open at 9 o'clock in the morning, so he will come back before then.
"Go out after 5 o'clock, because the subway station will open in a while." When we arrived at the park, walked around the lake quickly, "more than 7 kilometers, more than 140 minutes." This early morning walk lasted for more than two years, and Luo Jiuxing was on it. Month made a decision: running.
"I'm just curious: they can run, can I run? What does it feel like to run?" Luo Jiuxing recalled the first time he ran, "I was nervous." Taking into account the faster speed, he lengthened the blind cane by about 40 cm "This way, go farther." He said that when running, the use of blind sticks is different: stretch forward and slide left and right, explore possible obstacles, while tapping the right side from time to time, "I hear hard The sound of the road, you must also hear the muffled sound of hitting the lawn, otherwise it means that I am running in the middle of the road and need to lean to the side."
"When you are tired, take a break and turn into a brisk walk and run again." After this lap, "120 minutes, 20 minutes faster than usual, I was sweating." Luo Jiuxing said, since then, as long as it doesn't fall. Rain, I have to go to Qinglong Lake Wetland Park for a run every morning.
Several neighbors also told reporters that Luo Jiuxing did often go to the Qinglong Lake Wetland Park to run.
"The pace is also being adjusted." Luo Jiuxing said, he wanted to run faster, "but I can't see it anyway. If there are people or obstacles in front of you, the speed is too fast to stop..." Luo Jiuxing showed the reporter. A bump on his calf, "I hit the bicycle in front of me a few days ago."
Very happy
"I can run too!"
"It's really comfortable to run." Luo Jiuxing said, his mental state has also improved a lot, "I think I can run too, I am very happy!" When running, Luo Jiuxing often meets other runners oncoming. , "Everyone greeted me:'Mr. Luo, I'm running.' Haha..."
"I will continue to run in the future, and I must stick to it." After 12 noon, Luo Jiuxing said goodbye to the reporter.
He drew the rolling shutter door of the massage shop, took his blind stick and fumbled home.
He lives alone, a few hundred meters away from his home, walking along the blind road to an intersection, and he has to turn three turns.
"I met him on a run, and I really admire people like Uncle Luo." Someone commented under the vibrato video on the Internet.
Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News Correspondent Peng Liang