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Maria Petit is a Catalan athlete who became blind at the age of 17 in a motorcycle accident. But not for this reason she left the sport, on the contrary, after a period of adaptation she decided that sporting challenges would be part of her life and currently has a thousand projects in her head that she combines with her professional life.
Petit competed the last weekend of November in the 3 DÃas Trail Ibiza and, with her two guides, completed a technical mountain half marathon in which the sea is mixed with the rugged terrain of the southwest of Ibiza. And throughout this adventure, Maria always with a smile on her face.
Sport as a challenge
She is all empathy and willpower. At 32 years old, she has completely overcome the accident that left her blind as a teenager. Surely, it was one of the worst life experiences that at some point we have all dreamed of as a nightmare. But it was her turn to live the hell of becoming totally blind from one day to the next. She was leaving a nightclub at 3 a.m. and her motorcycle crashed into a badly parked truck. It was Tuesday, July 13, 2010. What could go wrong, went wrong.
However, talking to Maria, nothing makes you think that she has suffered such a hard experience. She is cheerful, direct, empathetic and with a boundless energy that drives her to take on all kinds of challenges. Just a few years ago she was able to crown the Aneto and this season she has climbed Kilimanjaro and run in Behobia, Gorbeia, the Trail de Rellinars, among others. And he already has in mind the next season with competitions such as the UTMB of Andorra or the Val d'Aran.
She turned 32 years old the same weekend of the 3 DÃas Trail Ibiza competition in which...