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Hello everyone.  I just created this blog where I am going to post all my training activities in route to IronMan Canada 2011 where I will join Winter and Dawn from Team Winter in their fight against Prostate Cancer. My initial profile picture is just God's faith at its best.  We took this picture August 15th in San Diego not even dreaming that this team will ever exist.  Well in this picture there are two athletes, one Coach and one fat guy...Me.  The cute little girl is Winter.  We have become good friend and she has inspired me to do some crazy things including this one.  The elegant lady is Dawn, Winter's mom.  Dawn is just a remarkable person with lots of passion in her heart and unpresedented commitment to her kids, their dreams, and their development as role models for many generations to come.  Hopefully Dawn and me will cross together the finish line at the Ironman.  The tall proportionaly shaped individual at the end is Kenneth or better known as Coach K.  Coach K took on coaching my son a few months back after I erronously though I could train my own son to do triathlons.  To this day I am glad he took the job because if he hadn't then I am almost sure I would have killed him by now from over training.  The other proportionally shaped individual, just a bit shorter and wider is me.  I am a cancer survivor, a dad, a husband, and I tell people that I am a former athlete.  That last part is kind of controversial.  If 22 years later qualifies as athlete then that I am but by looking at the picture I think my chances of anyone believing that are slim to none.  So, there you have it, they are not the total of my support team they are the team for whom I will be racing for, who I will race with and who will help me get in condition to race.
Just by reading this page you are part of my support team.  There are very few things I have put my mind to where I have failed and in those cases I am probably still trying.  God willing I will complete this journey, I will cross the finish line and put behind me 20 years of anger against this horrible desease.  As long as I am healthy enough to move I will train and train until I can get the job done.  I don't want to be a story, my story passed 19 years ago, I want to be the diffrence, I want to race and show this little girl that survivors like me, all over the world, care very much about what she is doing and if Dawn has not done it yet I want Dawn to cross the line holding the hand of a survivor and showing the world once again that it can be done and that cancer can be beat.  These two remarkable human beings deserve to see the result of their sacrifice and the only way is thru their work and their team.  I hope come August 2011 we can celebrate the cure but if it is not God's wish by then we will settle for knowing that we are that much closer and place our faith as always that the time will come when cancer will have a cure. 

I am honored and humbled to have this opportunity and I am blessed for knowing these people and having all of you who follow this blog supporting my effort.  Thank You