Achilles is a Melbourne based running club for people with a disability, offering training on how to guide athletes with a vision impairment. 

Our collaboration started as a way to support our Momentum Triathlon Academy athlete Patrick, who is a  vision impaired athlete.  We wanted to help young athletes better understand how they can help and what it is like to train or race with a vision impairment. 

Our young athletes joined Patrick at the Botanical Gardens for a ‘Guide Training Session’ and were surprised at how much they took their vision for granted when running, but also how much verbal and non verbal communication goes into being a great Guide. 

Millie, Skye and Seb all agreed that the training “let’s you experience running from a completely different perspective.”  Well done to the gang for supporting their team mates and we look forward to helping more young visually impaired athletes to enjoy triathlon!