“The Triabetes project has offered me the opportunity to make a dream a reality. This dream is to be a part of something so much bigger than me as an individual. Ironman is a daunting task, and looked at by many as impossible. It isn't! It is an amazing feeling when your brain stops telling you you can't do something. Everything then becomes a game of mind over matter, and you no longer have that little voice in the back of your head telling you that you're too tired. That voice stopped telling me I was too tired, and I became an Ironman in April of 2006 in Arizona. This was a proud day for me as the finish line announcer broadcasted that I was a type 1 diabetic to thousands of people. However, the day I look forward to and the day I will be most proud, is the day I watch 12 type 1 diabetics cross the finish line showing the world what it means to be a triabetic. For the next nine months I will live by the saying ‘You've got to wake up everyday with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.’ –unknown”