Standing at the starting point of Taitung’s Flowing Lake - often mistakenly called Freshwater Lake, though its clear spring water feels more like a mirror set beside the Pacific - you hear the first light of morning pass through the mist, the beeping of heart-rate monitors, and the shared breathing of thousands of people. Only then do you realize that life can be stretched so wide and so long.
IRONMAN 70.3: 113 kilometers. To an outsider, it may look like a form of self-inflicted madness. But for the triathlete emerging from the water, it is a pilgrimage, and a deep reconciliation with one’s own body.