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THE IRONMAN! Living with PASSION.
I spent 15 hours at the  FORD IRONMAN COEUR D'ALENE TRIATHLON on Sunday.  (As a spectator...my son was a FINISHER and is now an IRONMAN!).  The human spirit is alive & well!  I am in complete awe.  From the moment I arrived at the beach to watch the the swim portion of the event (2.4 miles) until the end of the triathlon I was fighting back tears of pure emotion.

The spectacle of seeing 3,500 participants waiting on the Lake Coeur d'Alene beach to begin the torturous swim in 56 degree water is almost indescribable.   These are people like you and me who have taken on the task to become bigger than life.  They have decided to do something that is almost impossible.  To watch them succeed gives me goose bumps even as I write this...2.4 MILE SWIM - 112 MILE BIKE - 26.2 MILE RUN...Are you serious?  ...But it is not just about the participants.
 

There were 6,500 volunteers helping to make the event a world-class affair.  From kayakers and scuba divers in the water watching every swimmer as they struggled through the icy water to the thousands of aid station helpers and transition team assistants ... more

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