Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 98, September 2017 | Page 39

impossible… and soon I was entering my first Ironman
70.3 in East London, in January 2016. I was so excited!
I trained very hard and I was loving the journey, and by
this time my high school friend was also into triathlons
and we planned to do the event together.
Reason to Tri Harder
Then, came the heart-breaking news just two months
before the rac