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🗓️ 20 May 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Tim (Timothy Philip) Don is a Ironman world champion from the United Kingdom. Two days before the 2017 Ironman World Championships, Tim Don was hit by a car. He suffered a Hangman's fracture to his neck. He spent 3 months recovering in a Halo Brace. Six months after he was injured, he returned to compete in the 2018 Boston Marathon where he finished in a time of 2:49:42.
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0:00.0 | I'm a big believer of what you put into life is what you get out of it. |
0:06.0 | Commit 110% and don't look back. |
0:10.0 | You are the four-time world champion triathlete, a three-time Olympian and on May 28th last year you set a new Iron Man world record of seven hours, 40 minutes and 23 seconds. |
0:20.0 | It wasn't until I crossed the line. |
0:23.0 | Wow, I just beat it by four minutes. |
0:26.0 | Oh my God, what did I just do? |
0:30.0 | I described the short Olympic distance racing. |
0:32.0 | It's a nice pick to the leg and you're in pain. |
0:35.0 | Well Iron Man is like a toothache, it's just that dull ache who can sustain the most amount of toothache |
0:41.2 | is often the winner. |
0:45.0 | Before a race, professional, you're going, well, what if I punch her, if I drop my nutrition? |
0:47.0 | You think of a million, you know, if this happens, that happens, this. |
0:50.0 | You don't think, what if three days before I break my neck |
0:52.0 | and there's a chance I can't walk, |
0:54.0 | and I might never race again. A truck coming towards me didn't see me, and then I got T-Loned. |
1:00.0 | It's called a halo because there's a carbon ring. They drill two holes into your skull here. |
1:07.0 | You just cannot move. You can't even think straight because you've got so much pain. |
1:12.0 | When you've done something your whole life and it's the only career you've had and it gets taken away from you and you're like, |
1:17.0 | well what am I going to do now? |
1:19.0 | It was about a month after I persuaded my manager to take me to the gym. |
1:24.7 | A month later, I mean, come on. |
1:28.0 | Why run the Boston Marathon? |
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