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August 17, 2006

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10-8: Life on the Line with Charles Remsberg

P-1 Update: Another milestone on the come-back trail for amputee trooper

By Chuck Remsberg
PoliceOne Senior Contributor

Trooper Matt Swartz, featured in a recent PoliceOne story about his courageous fight to return to full duty with the NY State Police after a leg amputation, has won another victory.

Last week [8/6/06] Swartz placed second in the below-knee amputation division of the annual Hope & Possibility Five-Mile Race, sponsored by the Achilles Track Club in New York City. The five-mile challenge for charity, which wound through Central Park, attracted some 3,400 runners, most of them disabled.

Swartz, 34, finished the race, which included a steep uphill stretch at about the three-mile mark, in 50 minutes 28 seconds. The division winner was a 19-year-old who clocked the course at 23:52.

Swartz, a Desert Storm vet, ran with a group of about 60 Iraq-war veterans called the Freedom Team. After he crossed the finish line, he still "had enough juice left" to return to the race course and run alongside other team members, cheering them "to pump it up and struggle for a strong finish," he told PoliceOne.

Medical studies have shown that an amputee with an average below-knee loss has to expend 25% more energy than a nondisabled runner, Swartz says. So how does he feel finishing the longest and toughest running challenge since his amputation less than two years ago? "Awesome!" he says.

For details of Swartz remarkable return to the road after a near-fatal auto accident cost him much of his left leg, read "We never thought you could come back"

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Charles Remsberg co-founded the original Street Survival Seminar and the Street Survival Newsline, authored three of the best-selling law enforcement training textbooks, and helped produce numerous award-winning training videos. His nearly three decades of work earned him the prestigious O.W. Wilson Award for outstanding contributions to law enforcement and the American Police Hall of Fame Honor Award for distinguished achievement in public service.

This column is sponsored by Blauer. Blauer has been a leader in protective uniforms and outerwear for law enforcement and fire/EMS professionals for sixty nine years and three generations of family members. Blauer is committed to law enforcement and to keeping officers safe.

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