THOMAS CLOYD

City: Oakland, CA

Profession: Healthcare Strategy

Fundraising Goal: $5,000

Race Goal Time: < 5 hour

 Why did you choose to run/wheel in support of Team U2FP?

"I have many connections to U2FP, the most direct being that I have a SCI and want to do everytthing I can to deliver an intervention to restore functions to folks like me. U2FP is doing extremely impressive and necessary work to make that intervention a reality." "Ipso facto, I am all about Team U2FP...I want to hit a full power forehand in tennis before I am 45".

First Marathon?

"No, I was lucky enough to push in the 2019 Bank of America Chicago Marathon fundraising for Team U2FP, which was my 1st marathon in a wheelchair or otherwise".

What do you crave after training?

"30 minutes lying on my stomach and knife and fork IPA".

Do you listen to anything when you train?

"Weird Sci-Fi books on tape and Top 40s all day. I've been hitting early 00's pop-punk lately (for which I am ashamed)".

What are you nervous or excited about the BACM?

"Most excited to focus on my time. Now that I know I can actually go through all the steps of completing the marathon, I can focus on improving my time to sun-5 hours". "As always I'm nervous about my body screwing me out of being able to participated (bowel/bladder/skin/shoulders/etc...) or getting a flat".

Fun Facts:

"I feel like the easy route for interesting factss ia always a humble brag, so...this may be interesting-it takes me more time to put on a pair of socks then it does t put on everything else (underwear, pants, shoes, shirt), so I no longer wear socks! Wait, nope, that wasn't interesting. My bad".

Unite 2 Fight Paralysis is proud to be an official charity team for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon in 2020. Team U2FP is a group of passionate, hard-working runners and wheelchair racers committed to racing 26.2 miles and fundraising to advance research towards a curative interventions for spinal cord injury.

Team U2FP raised over $145,000 in the past few years. All funds directly support our mission: to cure paralysis through advocacy, education, and support for research. Thank you for your support!