Para-athletes with high risk of corona infection and intractable disease resume outdoor training June 1 17:13
Para athletes who have been practicing at home for half a year because of the intractable disease that is said to be at high risk when infected with the new coronavirus following the cancellation of the emergency declaration, are also making full-scale training outdoors. I will.
Tomoya Ito (56), who has been nominated as Japan representative of the Tokyo Paralympic Games in the land wheelchair class, is infected with the new coronavirus due to intractable disease "multiple sclerosis" that causes disorders in limbs due to immune function If you do, the risk is high.
For this reason, I spent almost half a year before the declaration of an emergency, and spent almost half a year going out, focusing on training in a wheelchair on the equipment installed at home.
Following the cancellation of the declaration, Ito resumed training at the stadium in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, where he is based, only when there were no other users.
By refraining from going out, I continued to work for 6 hours every day at home, and in the training I did on the stadium track for the first time in half a year last week, I reduced my personal best on this track by about 1 second at 400 meters. It means that
Ito said, “For me with a basic illness, if I get infected, I could be killed, so I've been politely living every day for one hour and one hour. I think it's good to be able to do what I can do at home because of my personal best. It became a passing point. I would like to train while making it a general principle to go only to places where safety can be ensured. "