Yesterday on the 16th of October at 1:10 Mark Pollack visited our school. He is blind and paralised ,in 1998 at the age of 22 mark pollack became blind it took over two weeks until he was fully blind, but that didnt stop him from running marathans , trathalons,kyaking and also he did a ironman in switzer land. he also raced to the south pole and started in Antartica which was 400km he was in a group of three men who had trained with him for 12 monthes of hard training fisicaly and mentaly.he also did a 7 day marathon in the Gobi dessert. Although mark did very well to pick him self up disaster struck in 2010 in london he fell of a 2 story balcony and broke his spine he is now  disabled from the waste down. the people who found him on the ground thought he was dead and when he went to hospital the doctors said he had no chance of living but they were wrong. He spent 16 monthes in hospital after the accident and was in a wheel chair. the docters said he would never walk again but he said 'hes not going to sit around waitingfor him self to walk again' he did project walk in california for a year and then they got the equipment in UCD  were they have robotic legs to try help him walk again. there is a fun run in town to raise money for guide dogs ,mark pollack trust ect...they are hoping for 5000 people to show up and run either 5km or 10km