One More Step by Neal Bascomb Bonner Paddock

Author:Neal Bascomb, Bonner Paddock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-13T16:00:00+00:00

my efforts gradually; if I listened to what my body was telling me, I’d be fine. I wonder if he would have said the same if I had told him the truth.

By chance, I was having lunch with some folks at Oakley that same day. (Oakley, a sports eyewear and performance gear maker, had donated equipment for my Kilimanjaro climb, and the CEO, Colin Baden, had turned the screening of the documentary into a big event at its global headquarters.) Somewhere during the usual chit-chat, they asked me how I was feeling.

“Funny,” I said, “my doctor just cleared me to exercise.”

“What’s next then?” Dane Howell asked. Howell worked in Oakley’s military division, supplying all kinds of gear to the United States military, including Special Forces, and allies around the world. His nickname was “Guns” because of his ripped arms, and he was big: six foot seven, 240 pounds.

“Do you know any triathletes?” I asked.

“Don’t even tell me you’re thinking about doing Ironman!” Dane said.

“Well . . .” I sheepishly smiled, jumping in farther than I had planned to.

“You’re crazy,” said Erick Poston, Dane’s boss at the time and a former motocross champion who knew crazy from crazy. Then he asked, “You know who works for Oakley?”

I shook my head.

“Greg Welch.”

“The Ironman champion, dude,” Dane added.

“I know. He’s an absolute beast,” I replied.

“I’ll go see him and give him your documentary,” Poston promised.

Leaving lunch, I felt overwhelmed. Until that point, Ironman was still only an idea, one that I would commit to only if it were physically

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