Shakespeare is my wife's area of focus and so when our daughter was born in 2015 we named her Hero, a main female character in the Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing. More than 25 years later I had found my calling as a pastor with a church in Orange, California where I live with my wife Natalie, who is a professor of English literature. It didn't even cross my mind that I could ever do anything like that.
It was such an epic battle between the two main competitors that it is now known as the 'Iron War.' I remember watching as the competitors swam 2.4 miles, rode 112 miles and then ran 26.22 miles and thinking that they must be superhuman. Back in 1989 when I was around nine or ten years old, I watched a broadcast of an Ironman competition on TV.
