Longtime ABC-13 anchor Art Rascon needed a breathing machine after COVID pneumonia...
. The grueling race involves a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a full 26.2-mile marathon in succession. He’ll have approximately 17 hours to complete them all.
“I don’t know how smart that is, with my first triathlon being a full Ironman,” he said. “But I’m going to see how it goes.” “It just shocked me that I was even there,” he said. “I never considered that I would be hit so hard with COVID because I thought, ‘Well, I'm in relatively good health so I should be OK.’ That was not the case.”risk factors for developing a severe COVID-19 infection
Rascon remained in the hospital for four days, praying that he would need to be placed on a ventilator. He still gets emotional when he remembers how he woke up in the middle of the night in a panic, surrounded by monitors that were keeping track of his vital signs. “My pulmonologist says I'll eventually get over that, but I'm still waiting,” he said. “It's been two and a half years. but it's getting better. I just have to pace myself.”Rascon began running six or seven months after he was released from the hospital. At first, he just wanted to be able to exercise like he had before his illness.
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