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“So Shamus thought, ‘Geez, we could run across America, you and me,” Shaun said.
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The Evans family – Shaun, Shamus, Shaun’s wife Nichole and 7-year-old son Simon – calculated the duo could run more than 3,000 miles, or from one end of the country to the other. Next was the Albany ultra-marathon, in which participants run as far as they can within a six-hour timeframe.Īfter the duo won that race by running just more than 45 miles, Shamus wondered how far they could go if they ran that distance every day during the summer. Their first event together was the 4-mile Firecracker race in Saratoga Springs in summer 2013. Shamus didn’t actually compete in races with his father until spring 2013, when he received his running chariot – a specialized carriage designed for a runner to push a disabled person in – from Virginia Beach, Va.-based nonprofit Ainsley’s Angels. The cerebral palsy primarily affects Shamus’ legs, so he uses a wheelchair to get around however, Shaun has been pushing Shamus along on his practice runs since Shamus was 18 months old. Shamus, now 8, was diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy around his first birthday. “But Shamus, his little wheels were spinning.” “First of all, I’m thinking, ‘OK, that’s it you can’t do any better than winning an ultra-marathon while pushing your son,” Shaun said recently while sitting with Shamus at their home in Galway. Shaun Evans of Galway thought he had reached a pinnacle when he won his first ultra-marathon in Pittsfield, Mass., in 2013 while pushing his son Shamus in a running chariot.