Luke Belfield, and Marathon Swimming with Childhood Arthritis

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Stanley Ulijaszek

June 18, 202525 min
Swimming

Luke Belfield, and Marathon Swimming with Childhood Arthritis

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Luke Belfield is a force, undertaking feats of running and swimming which would tax any mortal. As someone who developed arthritis in childhood, with some remissionand then resumption in early adult life, he could have accepted the ruling of the ancient Greek three sisters of fate. But he didn’t. Very successfully, he has been weaving his own destiny with the thread that he has been given, by, in his own words, considering his body as an instrument and not an ornament. In this podcast, we talk about his athletic journey, from running the Athens marathon and ironman, to ma...