Blind woman sets her sights on the 10k
By Jacqueline Raithel, Contributing Writer
Many participants in the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10k find the event to be a challenge on its own, but walking the race with severely impaired vision adds an extra set of challenges.
For Renee Haynes, those challenges will be very real on April 2, the day of this year’s race. Haynes has been almost completely blind since she was 8 years old after a condition called hydrocephalus damaged her optic nerve. They won’t be new challenges though – she walked the race last year, too.
Read the full story here, in the Chesterfield Observer.
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