On May 5th, 2012 almost 1500 athletes and I filed into the calm chilly waters of Sand Hollow Reservoir in St George, Utah ready to embark on the first leg of Ironman St George. The water looked like glass, the sun was just peeking over the mountains, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The Ironman event is a triathlon race consisting of three events. A 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, and a 26.2-mile run. I had completed the same race in 2011 just a year earlier. At that race,