Challenged Athletes Foundation

Three stories of three different challenged athletes that I've met.

So one guy I met through the Blind Stokers Club when I started riding bikes with the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

I've cycled most of my life.

And I rode my electric bike to work today.

It consisted of a 28-mile swim around Manhattan Island, a 3,000-mile bike ride from New York to Las Vegas, finishing with a 350-mile run to Venice Beach, California.

He completed this challenge in 47 days, raising over $150,000 for Save the Children and the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

Mohamed Lahna, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.

You just completed one of the most insane wild ideas, 3,300-mile cross-country triathlon in 47 days.

He would start by swimming 28.5 miles around Manhattan, then bike 3,000 miles from New York to Las Vegas.

For the final stage, he'd run 350 miles from Vegas to Venice Beach, California.

Along the way, Mohamed raised money for a couple of organizations that have been very influential in his life, Save the Children and the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

On June 13th, 2026, after two years of training, Mohamed began the first leg of his triathlon swimming around Manhattan.

The other cool thing is, is that pretty much anywhere you go in the country now, there are programs, like, um, Jesse's program.

There's, um, the Challenged Athletes Foundation.

We're a chapter of the largest adaptive sports organization in the country, which is called Move United.

Yeah.

Yeah, you like...

Yeah, it was, like, couple thousand dollars, but Challenged Athlete Foundation helped me get a grant for it.

Would you race against other kids in chairs?

I would race against other able body, b- uh, able-bodied kids and ki- and kids or teenagers and people my age, um-

we can change direction and sometimes one thing simply leads to another one experience opens a door which opens another door and suddenly we found ourselves somewhere we could have never imagined and i also loved what brian said about our why sometimes our why is strong enough to help us keep moving through things that feel really incredibly difficult and sometimes as we move into a new chapter our why changes If you'd like to learn more about Brian, I've included links to Testudo Logistics, eSIM, and his LinkedIn in the show notes.

I've also included information about Challenged Athletes Foundation, the organization that Brian talked about and is incredibly passionate about.

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