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My biggest setback is needing to rely on someone else to reach the training area. I could probably have walked to the dojo before it moved, but I didn't know the way; seeing as I actually got up early enough for the morning session, this was just frustrating (I did once try going anyway, but my GPS is terrible).
I knew someone in high school who wound up obtaining some weighted training equipment--arm/wrist bands, a vest, etc... think Dragonball Z. And that was quite enough to get him frequently running the local "mountain" (The threshold for mountain status in this area ... well, the John Wane version of True Grit was supposedly hilarious due to using the Rockies as a stand-in for glorified hills.)
I took a judo class one semester. I got an absessed toe halfway through, so the person driving me there decided it was better that I not attend until it got better. ... The blatant display of pacing it took to convince him it was better... blah.
There's a lot I could do, athletically speaking, if people/places/my ability to travel to places were better. The one I'm still worried about is running; I almost never get to run at full speed, because I can't detect incoming obstacles (and being over 16 takes away the wolverine-like healing ability and replaces it with height as a torque amplifier). In fifth and sixth grade, I was often one of the last people to finish laps around the gym, even though I once managed to outrun the observed fastest student in the class in a slightly less crowded-and-lined-with-equipment environment. And that was when cutting corners and with better (but still braille-bound) vision compared to today.
(The afore-mentioned weighted training clothes guy once joined me and the astronomy class on a trip to another local "mountain", and the two of us decided to run up rather than hang back with everyone else. He observed that I was faster than him, but he had better stamina. You might be wondering what a blind person was doing on an astronomy trip, which is a very good question, but now this comment is 2KB long.)
While sports for blind athletes, like goalball, exist, not living in a city and having to rely on cars sounds like a huge obstacle. I have no idea what to recommend. I suppose you already tried the obvious i.e. getting together with other visually impaired people living nearby, forming a club a exploring activities together, but I suppose this did not work due to the low pop density. If you could not find a sighted running buddy who would warn you of obstacles then I suppose there are other problems here of which I have no idea so I should rather not try to give advice that may turn out to be bad.