In My Wildest Dreams
*Last Week Ironman.com requested my "story" for qualifying for Kona at IMTx. Here it is... Thanks for asking about my journey! I'm still pinching myself, not quite believing that I've achieved an accomplishment that was truly in my "wildest dreams" - and so close to "little incident" I had by getting KO'd by a car! Three years ago I traveled to Kona with friends as they worked the Ford Ironman World Championships and we helped, spectated, and cheered local Austinites that were there competing. Every year prior to that and since then, for truly as long as I can remember, I would sit on my couch every December to watch my "super bowl", with TV blaring, family staring, I would watch, with a catch in my throat and tears in my eyes as "others" achieved their dreams in Kona. Their feats were amazing - those it took to get there and those that they were accomplishing there - and I knew that particular journey was pushing their pers