On my list of the coolest things I have done, coaching college basketball is near the top.
Also on that list is something very few people have ever done: I scuba dived under the start of the Ironman competition off the Kona Coast on the Big Island of Hawai’i. The Ironman is an endurance and speed contest in which the contestants do a 2.4 mile open ocean swim, followed by a 100 mile bike race across the lava fields. Only then do the contestants run a marathon, running 26.2 miles immediately after finishing the first two legs of the triathlon.