From couch potato to 86-year-old Ironman

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Yee Sze Mun’s unbreakable spirit has so far carried him to the finish of 16 full Ironman races.

For non-ferrous readers, a full Ironman comprises a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike ride and a marathon , all within 17 hours. He discovered one at Port Dickson. “I saw a banner for the PD International Triathlon,” he says, “so I went into the yacht club to find out what it was all about. ‘Ordinary’ is a label that will never be attached to this indefatigable octogenarian who has now been inducted into the Ironman Malaysia Hall of Fame.If his times are slow, his story is nothing less than an epic of perseverance: in overcoming age, physique, pain and mishaps.“There were 15 of us at the table and she only ate scraps after the kids had finished. She was an Iron Lady before they invented the Ironman.

Sixteen hours and 37 minutes later, he crossed the finish line to be officially declared “an Ironman” – with just 22 minutes to the cut-off to spare.As family and friends congratulated him, they begged him to quit and take up golf. But Yee was just getting started. A faulty drain cover caused his bike to flip, cracking his helmet and led to a loss of hearing and neck pain until now.

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