Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, April 13 (reporter Lu Xianting, Lei Jiaxing, Lin Fanshi) at the meeting of Liuzhou IRONMAN70.3 star players held on the 13th, one player was particularly conspicuous. Wen Xiangdong, the 70-year-old man is still active in the triathlon.
It is not easy to hear that the east comes from Liaoning and is still active in the triathlon. An accidental opportunity after retirement made him bond with triathlon. “In 2010, I watched the triathlon competition for the first time in Jiayuguan. I felt very powerful and envious.”
After that, I heard that I went east to the journey of triathlon. “At first, I trained with some friends. After practicing for a while, they all gave up, and only I persisted.” Wen Xiangdong said, “a person’s training is very boring, but the belief in participating in the competition in my heart made me stick to it and realize the significance of triathlon, let me have the motivation and confidence to stick to this beautiful thing.”
In 2011, he took part in the triathlon competition at Jiayuguan as he wished. After that, he was out of control and persisted until now. Qujing, Xiamen, Beijing…… Wen Xiangdong’s three tracks are all over the country, and even have been to the United States, South Korea and other places to participate.
Every project of tiesan has to undergo hard training. Wen Xiangdong could not swim before he retired. In order to practice tiesan, he began to study swimming hard. Now I can compete with other players on the court.
Tiesan enriched the life of smelling East, but the hard training also brought him pain. He accidentally fell and was injured during cycling training earlier this month, which made him only participate in swimming at Liuzhou Station. “I will not give up. Triathlon is my life. I am now recuperating and preparing for the “big iron” race in Taiwan at the end of the month.”
“There is still much room for improvement in the popularization of triathlon in China.” Wen Xiangdong said that in the iron triathlon in Hawaii last year, more than 2,500 people participated in the competition, and only 33 people in China. Wen Xiangdong hopes that his experience can encourage more people to participate in this sport.
“On Kona IRONMAN in 2018, I met Mr. Dahiro from Japan. At the age of 86, he still insisted on completing the whole competition.” Wen Xiangdong was very touched and inspired by this, and was determined to learn from the old-timers.
Wen aspired to the east and stood on Kona IRONMAN when he was 90 years old.