Woman with spina bifida aims to be first female Mud Runner in a wheelchair
A young woman from Northolt, London, will be the first female wheelchair-user in the UK to participate in the Mud Runner Classic, and only the second manual wheelchair user to participate. Sita Patel, 34, who was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, will be taking part in the Mud Runner event at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire on 18th October 2015, to raise funds and awareness for the national charity Shine. Sita, who works for the NHS and who’s nickname is ‘Rims’, decided to take on the challenge after seeing a youtube video of another wheelchair user doing a mud run with six friends. So she recruited a team of friends to join her, and hired an all-terrain wheelchair from Mountain Trike, in what will prove an exceptionally difficult event for all participants. The team will cover seven miles over muddy terrain, on what used to be a Land Rover test…
