A man with a terminal lung disease has completed the Seattle Marathon while towing his oxygen tank.
KOMO-TV reports Evans Wilson walked the entire 26.2-mile race Sunday and finished in just under 11 hours. The station reports that the former competitive runner has pulmonary fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension.
Wilson told the station that he wasn’t running the race for fun but in the hopes of raising $50,000 for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. He says the “disease is incredibly underfunded.”
KOMO reports that Wilson has been living with both conditions for five years. The station says says the median survival time is about three years.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
WHAT A MAN! BRAVO!
Fantastic – we should all be such an inspiration to each other…
Surprising energy for one in such a horrible medical state.
Even with oxygen A small tank is heavy and those do not not last long. The larger
tanks are really heavy. the small last barely 3 hours and larger maybe 4. So he must have
had many tanks ready and waiting. Still takes a lot of stamina. Bless his heart.