Julia!

I was so impressed with you coming into Emory as a freshmen and you motivated me to work harder in all those miserable breaststroke sets... and now you're about to compete in the Ironman of all Ironmans and its motivating me to not get fat now that I'm done swimming! I've been doing cycling classes and there is one lady who has 5 little Ironman tattoos on her leg... one for each she's done... I think you should definitely get one to show off how badass you are!!
Good luck... I know you'll do awesome... and when you get tired and feel like your body is about to break down just remember all the people that are rooting for you and wishing you the best. You got this!!

Ellen Flader