Friday, October 19, 2012

Mark Pollock Lecture


Mark Pollock is an adventure athlete and motivational speaker. Mark is also blind and paralysed from the waist down.

Mark is Northern Irish, was on the National Rowing team and went to Trinity. When he was in his final year at Trinity, aged 22, Mark began losing his sight because of detached retinas, in the space of two weeks he had completely lost his sight. However Mark did not let this slow him down and he threw himself back into sports; he raced across Antartica, did 7 marathons in 7 days and fought his way back onto the National Rowing team. During this time Mark had also become an increasingly popular motivational speaker.

However in 2010, Mark fell from a 3 story building, resulted in paralysis from the waist down. Mark is now trying to walk again through both the use of physiotherapy and robotic legs. Mark's lecture focused on being different, being ambitious and being brave.

In order to support Mark's therapy and various other associated charities, a charity run will be held in several locations on November 14th, 2012. See www.runinthedark.org for details.

www.markpollock.com


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