Micheál Costello on how he had the iron will to keep going

There's a 3.8km swim, a 180km cycle and a 42.2km marathon run to suffer through to become an Ironman. Kerry man Micheal Costello did just that at the beginning of October in 29 degrees of Barcelona heat. Here are his painful and proud reflections

Micheal Costello Ironman

As the sun rose over the Mediterranean off the coast of Barcelona on the first morning of October, I should have been lining up at the swim start on my journey to becoming an Ironman.

Instead, I, a 28-year-old would-be Ironman, was panicking because I had lost my mom.