BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The first time Shane Niemeyer thought about Ironman triathlons, he had just tried to hang himself.
It was 2003 and he was a 27-year-old homeless heroin addict in an Idaho jail, awaiting sentencing for drug possession and burglary. Guards put him in a straitjacket, so he says he used his feet to turn the pages of the magazine article about the endurance sport.
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