The baby was healthy and I had done all the preparation to compete in the race. The race was great celebration for my family. Just 3 weeks later, I jumped in the water to start the Ironman. Jalen Armstrong was born on March 16th, 2006.
But Jen urged me to continue throughout those months. The pregnancy was high-risk and I often expressed my doubt for chasing the Ironman dream while her pregnancy became more and complex. Jen’s pregnancy was further complicated by her Type 1 diabetes. I had been training for the year prior while my wife, Jen, was pregnant with our son, Jalen. The entire race was a celebration for my family. It was truly a magical day in 2006 when I joined the other athletes for Ironman Arizona. In one training session, I rode a stationary bike for 6 hours overnight in the parking lot of a marathon and then jumped off to run the race with a friend. My journey included teaching myself to swim from a book and pushing my physical body like never before. I was chasing down my dream with incredible vigor. Nothing could stop me from doing the impossible.
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Committed from the age of 25, I set forth into a haphazard training style full of overuse injuries and nutritional mistakes. I side-lined the Ironman until I was out of college and started with my career. I absorbed it all from an early age and put the race high on a pedestal of bucket list dreams to chase throughout my life. The edited program brought such drama to the race with slow-motion edits and emotional music. The pain, the suffering, the raw human emotion…it was unlike so many other things I saw on television. It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. I remember seeing athletes struggle through the course on television. The 140.6 mile race was a life-long dream etched from an early age by ABC’s Wide World of Sports. It took me over five years to take my body and mind from “normal guy” to Ironman. In 2006, I finished my first Ironman triathlon.
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