Indialantic gym rat Ken Ogden competed alongside some of Earth's fittest athletes at the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games in July of 2018 in Madison, Wisconsin — and he qualified while undergoing daily radiation treatments for cancer.
The 63-year-old ranked as one of the world's top 20 competitors in the CrossFit Men's 60+ Masters division. During the arduous, multi-month qualifying process featuring an array of workouts, Ogden endured six weeks of radiation therapy for squamous cell carcinoma on his left cheek.
"He's not an ordinary human. That's the easiest way to put it," said Matias Rodriguez, Ogden's coach and owner of CrossFit OwnIt in West Melbourne.