Feed Your Focus

Guts, Grit & Ironman. Ironman Class 101 shared by Janie Bowen and Taylor Cannon. War stories. Podiums. Training. Balance. In this episode you will be introduced to two Mi Duole team mates who are filled with guts, grit and passion. That passion took them into the world of Ironman. Both have completed multiple full length Ironman events.  Taylor grew up very active in sports. He played high school football, basketball and Rugby at the University of Utah. He then turned to running after he got married.  He ran his first marathon in 2006 and has since then run over 20 marathons.  He has qualified for the Boston marathon a multiple times and ran Boston in 2015.  His fastest marathon time was 2:52 in St. George in 2016. He ran 2- ultras (50 milers) and then decided to move onto different goals.  He turned to the ironman world in 2011 with St George Full ironman. He has done 4 full Ironman's, 9 half-Ironman's, and a few other triathlons.  Since learning to love cycling through Ironman he has done the Ultimate challenge, multiple centuries, and LOTOJA 3x.   Meet Janie Bowen...At the age of 5 Janie was diagnosed with a vision robbing autoimmune eye disease that has led to ~6 eye surgery including a lens replacement in her right eye. She has received steroid injections straight into her eyes more than 100 times. At the age of 13 she was involved in a terrible boating accident requiring her to be life flighted from Lake Powell. She had pins put in her hip to fix a spiral fracture of her femur. She had her hip replaced at the age of 20 because of necrosis from her femur fracture. Janie didn’t allow health struggles to define her life. In high school she excelled in swimming winning the 200 IM 5A state championship. Janie started doing triathlon in 2017 starting with 1/2 Ironman in Santa Cruz. She had since completed 3 full Ironman races as well as countless 1/2 Ironman races. She raced and got on the podium in her first LOTOJA after joining the team in 2019. She worked for 6 years as a nurse primarily in the pediatric ER, adult ER, Pediatric ICU, and NICU. She then went back to school and became a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Midwife. In September she gave birth  to her beautiful baby (Blue). Step in and get ready to be inspired by these two incredible athletes.  This episode and team are gratefully brought to you by our friends at Hanagar 15 Cycles.  All our thanks go out to Mike Hanseen (master bike fitter) and his crew for taking care of the Mi Duole team.