No one with dwarfism have ever done before I am, so I’ll be the first. Being a little …(1)…person, we grow up a lot with people telling us, you can’t do that you’re too small, you can’t do that you’re too …(2)…short. I want to show that any other person who’s …(2)…short stature if they want to do something …(3)…bad enough, they can prepare and do it. The Iron Man is a 2.4 miles open water swim, …(4)…112 miles bike ride followed by a full marathon …(5)…26.2 miles of running. I don’t …(6)…think my race is any harder, it’s just my race, I take more steps, for standard racing bikes it’s …(7)…27 inch wheel, I have …(8)…20 inch wheel. So it takes more revolutions for my wheels to go the same distance. But it’s all I know, and I know what’s expected and I know what I have to do. When I met my lowest and things are really hurting, I’m gonna think about people who tried their best to ridicule me and make …(9)…fun of me, those people are gonna motivate me to dig deep and keep going. I think crossing that finish line is obviously gonna be…, probably beat all of those people that’d ever said you can’t do this. Just going away. I’m pretty …(10)…proud of my self, I am the first person with dwarfism to do the race I’m feeling pretty good.
Quang Nguyen