Ken Rideout

I just got in.

I qualified at the New York City Ironman the first year they had it.

And when they have new races, they give extra qualifying spots.

So basically, it's like I found all these loopholes and figured a way to get into the race.

And I did it.

And to me, it was like qualifying for the Olympics.

When you're like 40 years old, it's like you're not going to the Olympics.

This is...

It's on NBC sports.

It's everyone's trying to get there in the sport.

And I got there and I just took for granted that I was like, how hard it is.

It's like, you're doing a, you start running a marathon after running 112 miles, swimming two and a half miles in the ocean.

And then in the Hawaii at one o'clock in the afternoon, it would be hard to do that.

Like if you were trained for it in resting to come off the bike and do that was almost impossible.

Yeah.

And I got on the run.

It was really hard.

And I see my wife and she's recording and it's literally on camera.

I run up to her.

I'm doing this like cut, stop recording me.