Kyle Coon, PLY

2X U.S. Paralympian (2020, 2024), Professional Speaker and Author. Cancer took my sight, blindness gave me vision, and adventure let's me live. #eyeronvision

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

Proud to be included on this list!

[News4JAX @wjxt4]

The 2024 Olympics in Paris are right around the corner and the area has a handful of athletes who are headed to compete. https://t.co/WtGQ3y6rXL

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

Something I need to remember

[hansonsrun @hansonsrun]

A lesson that we should teach our athletes.
You can do everything right. Your daily runs, sleep & diet perfect. Great mindset about your workouts.
AND STILL FAIL ON RACE DAY
Sport is hard and you better learn that success is even harder.
Get after it again. Easy isn’t worth it.

[Dr. Scott Carlin @scottcarlinpt]

You have plenty of time to exercise.

You don't have enough focus.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Movement is medicine.

Large systematic review of over 1,000 trials and 120,000 participants finds that exercise has a significant effect on symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress.

We need to do a better job of integrating mental and physical health.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Do the Work

Doing the work has a special way of putting both success and failure in their respective places. After a massive achievement or a devastating failure, getting back to work serves as an embodied reminder that external results are not why you are in this.

[The Seeing Eye @SeeingEyeInc]

Here’s a great article explaining the differences between service animals and emotional support animals:
https://t.co/2fEji3emDD via @cpsj

[Paralympic Games @Paralympics]

ON SALE NOW!

Tickets for the @Paris2024 Paralympic Games are now on sale. Tell your friends, don't miss it! Link to buy: https://t.co/jCo6diNyGi

#Paris2024 #Paralympics

[World Triathlon @worldtriathlon]

ON SALE NOW! Tickets for the @Paris2024 Paralympic Games are on sale. 🗓️ Save the dates for Para Triathlon, September 1-2, 2024!
Don’t miss #Paris2024 🇫🇷🥐

Book your tickets 👇

#ParaTriathlon #Triathlon

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

For money to save you, first, you have to save it.

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

Wow!

[Chicago Marathon @ChiMarathon]

WORLD RECORD: We have a new man in town. Kelvin Kiptum just broke Eliud Kipchoge's World Record with an unofficial time of 2:00:35! UNBELIEVABLE!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900…

Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.

Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 38. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.

When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet, but don't try to catch your breath. If you lived in London, England, or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighborhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war.

At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. At 55, the Vietnam War begins and doesn't end for 20 years. Millions of people perish in that conflict.

On your 62nd birthday, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.

In 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is.

Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you think they survived all of the above? When you were a kid in 1965, you didn't think your 65-year-old grandparents understood how hard school was, and how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.

Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very enlightening. So, let's try and keep things in perspective. Let's be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.”

-Author Unknown

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

Exactly why I started running in 2014 and triathlon in 2015

[Dr. Scott Carlin @scottcarlinpt]

Don't run because it's easy.

Run because it's hard.

[USA Triathlon @usatriathlon]

.@teamusa comes out on top at the 2023 Open Paratriathlon Mixed Relay 🥇🇺🇸

@Kendall_Gretsch, @kyle_coon guided by Zack Goodman, @gracenormantri and Carson Clough lead the way to victory!

#PontevedraFinals | #IgniteTheSpark | #RoadToParis2024 | #Paris2024

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

@1010XL didn’t UF open up against Michigan in 2017 in Dallas? Does that not count as a game outside the state since it was a neutral site game?

[Little Everywhere @lileverywhere]

On a new #OtherPeoplesPockets, @mayalau talks to @kyle_coon, a blind Paralympian on Team USA. Kyle reveals how personal finance is different as a blind person, and what it means to rest financial hopes on winning a Paris 2024 medal.

Listen @ApplePodcasts https://t.co/iTxM3KVPHL

[BlindNewWorld @BlindNewWorld]

United is the first U.S. airline to add #braille to its plane interiors - and they expect all their aircraft to be updated by the end of 2026. ✈️ #a11y #BlindNewWorld
https://t.co/lWncwmsc1B

[Dr. Scott Carlin @scottcarlinpt]

You don’t need to get in better shape to start running.

You don’t need super shoes.

You don’t need a GPS watch.

You just need to start.

[The Seeing Eye @SeeingEyeInc]

Maryland has officially become the second state, after New Jersey, to pass a law that gives people with guide and other service dogs the right to keep their dogs in housing covered by the Fair Housing Act.

[Kyle Coon, PLY @kyle_coon]

What a day for endurance racing! Courtney Dauwalter throws down a 15:29 at Western States. Then Magnus Ditlev and Daniela Ryf obliterate Challenge Roth course records. 🔥🔥🔥