Bob and friends posing on the pier in Kona before taking on the Ironman Triathlon, circa early-1980s

Live Like Jack

Live Like Jack In the late 1970’s, running events were springing up all over San Diego and it seemed like every weekend I was at a local 10K at Mission Bay, in Coronado, or in Balboa Park chasing this really fast guy with a cool mustache who always wore a red bandana. I didn’t know…

Ironman Class of 1980

  What a great party! Over 150 people joined us at our Challenged Athletes Foundation headquarters on Sunday, March 8th to honor the Ironman Class of 1980, to kick off the 2020 triathlon season, and to remember two amazing people we lost in 2019: Mike Levine and Mike Plant.       It was a…

Always Keep Moving Forward

It happened 40 years ago on Sunday, January 12, 1980, and it’s a day that changed my life forever. There were 108 of us there on the island of Oahu to attempt the third-ever Ironman Triathlon. In both 1978 and 1979, the event attracted 15 starters and 12 finishers. Because of a long article in…