I was doing about 40 mph when I hit the rock.”Īfter five surgeries and aggressive physical therapy, he slowly was able to put more and more weight on his legs. “There was some serious question as to whether the bone was going to repair itself because the nature of the high impacts. “It was a very difficult time for me and my family,” Carl said in several interviews. His tibia and fibula had been crushed which left him unable to walk for over nine months.
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“A series of circumstances led me to fall about 70 feet onto a rock shelf shattering the bones in my right leg with compound fractures.” “I was a relatively experienced climber but my lead rope hubris probably got the better of me that day,” said Carl, who had six years of prior rock climbing experience. He opined that he only started running marathons because he thought it would be a good way to lean out even more and be able to climb harder routes. But this changed when one of his adventures nearly killed him.Ĭarl was training for his second marathon in Chicago and decided to go rock climbing with a friend in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia, on Sept. The most running he ever did was wind sprints up and down the hallway during wrestling practice.
How did the story start?Ĭarl Byington was never a runner growing up. He conquered his last continent, Africa, in July 2013 when he completed a marathon in Zimbabwe, joining the ‘ 7 Continents Marathon Club’ in the process. He’s an adventure seeker and took his passion around the world thru running as he ran a marathon on all seven continents. Seven Continent Quest A Marathon on Every Continent and BeyondĬarl Byington is a unique individual who has accomplished something that less than 500 people in the world have done.
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