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Inspired at Ironman: Three unique athletes share stories leading up to race

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KAILUA-KONA — Some time Saturday evening, after the sun sets on Alii Drive, Jeff Agar will stop cold in his tracks, so close to the end he’ll almost be able to taste it.

Then his son Johnny will hoist himself out of the jogging chariot harnessed to his father and march 1.2 miles across the finish line to perhaps the six most deserved words spoken throughout the entire race.

“Johnny Agar, you are an Ironman!”

The sports management student at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who has carried a 4.