Hit and running across the USA: Nick Ashill
Nine To Noon
English - May 29, 2022 22:05 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Nick Ashill is a Marketing Professor at Victoria University who is just about to resume an epic run across America - five years after he was seriously injured in a hit and run accident. Nick began his mission across the United States in 2017, but 4000km into the journey got hit at 50mph by a pickup truck. After 16 surgeries, relearning how to walk and then run, he left for the US on Friday and today begins the final 922km of his journey, over a period of 18 days. Along the way, he is raising funds for the New Zealand Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ and the UK-based Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Trust. He tells Kathryn his remarkable story.