Catching Breaks
An update March 2023 – Somewhere in Shibuya City “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi One of my biggest fears is that I will lose the capacity to learn. But this past year has afforded numerous learning opportunities, and let’s face it […]
A Line in the Sand
For the first time in my life I have very real concerns about my ability to complete a race before it begins. I have an agreement with myself that my race performance will inform the scope of activities that I take on going forward. So in short, my experience in this race has huge implications for my future.
So on S2, near CP2, I collapsed from heat stroke with a temperature of 106 and was unconscious for 15 to 20 minutes, laying in the sand for 65 minutes and in that spot for 1:40 total. Everything was captured on film.
I am forever grateful for Paul who immediately requested medical assistance when I started to go unconscious, Ghalia the wonderful cinematographer who went to get the medical team and actually drove the media truck herself and the medical team who took great care of me in a very difficult overwhelming situation. Thank you all!
I went too far in the Sahara, learning exactly how far I can go. I take what happened tremendously seriously, and will be sorting out my path forward based on the learnings of this and the last few years.
Certainly this is the end of a chapter, but the book isn’t written yet and as I begin to turn the page, I am full of optimism and excitement about the future. I have a fire inside me that will never burn out and there is nothing in this world that can hold me down.
I will be back!
Press
September 13, 2021 December 10, 2020 Athlinks Profile https://blog.athlinks.com/2020/12/10/podcast-episode-16-bill-bucklew-going-farther-in-the-face-of-parkinsons/ May 6, 2020 Abbott World Marathon Majors https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/news-media/latest-news/bill-bucklew-raising-funds-and-raising-spirits/ April 27, 2020 https://www.livegreatly.co/podcasts/it-is-unbelievable-what-you-can-accomplish-a-conversation-with-bill-bucklew March 1, 2020 https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/runner-who-took-up-sport-to-battle-parkinson-s-disease-participates-in-napa-valley-marathon/article_7cc93bdd-8813-57f3-81f4-f4c2fb3cff58.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share October 22, 2019 Check out the above feature from ABC on the Northside Run Club! October 7, 2019 Click here to see the PBS feature on Bill’s attempt on all […]
UnCorked Adventures NFP – Looking Forward with a Check of the Rear-View Mirror
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank everyone that supported UnCorked Adventures in 2018. The board and I are humbled and thankful for not just your incredible generosity, but your enthusiasm, continued encouragement and belief in our organization and mission. Our mission @UnCorked is not to build another stand-alone organization, but rather […]
