She Is Laps Ahead!

WBZ's Jordan Rich says this NJ Ironman is an 80-year-old woman, proving you're never too old to do anything!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome. This is the upside with Jordan, a dose of
good news. Because it's a big world out there. We're
all familiar with the Ironman World Championship triathlons, usually held
in Hawaii. Well, recently, an unusual participant from the state
of New Jersey did something pretty special in this event.
Her name is Natalie Grabau, and she's living proof that
it's never too late to get started. Now. She happens

(00:21):
to be an eighty year old grandmother. She never learned
to swim until she was nearly sixty and participated in
the triathlon, swimming two and a half miles. And because
it's a triathlon, she put one hundred and twelve miles
on a bicycle and then ran a twenty six point
two mile marathon. Right after that. She outpaced about sixty
others before they finished, and you guessed it, all of
them were younger. She began running in her middle years,

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but in her fifty she still didn't know how to swim.
She took lessons, worked hard, and completed an amazing feat
And yes, she signed up for iron Man twenty twenty six.
And that's the upside with Jordan. WBZ, Boston's News Radio