TROY – While enduring two bouts of cancer, it would have been easy for Troy University sprinter Martin Bouldo to pack away his track career, forget his dreams of one
But that’s not how Bouldo approaches life.
People are also reading… “And when things suck now, things could get a lot worse. I could have had stage 3 … it could have gone to my brain.” Bouldo’s journey from being a high school track star in Niceville, Fla., to signing with Troy University is filled with more ups and downs than a roller coaster.
“My second race was at that same track. I was running the 400 and I blew past everybody and I remember winning by a huge margin, so I kind of fell in love with it.” “I’m thinking this is going to be a redemption year and this is where the funny stuff starts happening,” Bouldo said.“I start kind of feeling some weird sensitivities where they’re not supposed to be sensitive,” Bouldo said. “I gain 10 pounds out of nowhere. I don’t look different … I feel stronger and running better … but I’m having unexplained symptoms, weird stuff.
The surgery went fine that October for the removal of the testicle, but unfortunately the CT scan before the procedure showed the cancer had spread.It meant treatments of chemotherapy in New Jersey, where his father was then practicing medicine. “I drove all the way back down here in late March,” Bouldo said. “I started talking to Coach Davis … I want to start running again. He said, ‘Go walk for 10 minutes.’
“They cut you open from here to here and they clean out every single lymph node you have and put you back together and wish you good luck.”“We get the surgery done that next week, I plan it around spring break so I can do the surgery and come back and not even miss a beat at school,” Bouldo said. The abnormal fluid draining finally stopped, however, and Bouldo was yet again on his way back to Troy.“That summer I trained and tried to run as best as I could,” Bouldo said. “By the fall , I was in some kind of shape to kind of stick with the pack. It wasn’t like it was the year before, though. I wasn’t leading the workouts as much anymore, if at all.
“One of the conscientious athletes I’ve ever coached. He’s the model student/athlete if you really want to know the truth.”
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