00:00We have a saying here that you know you, quote, got it when you die of natural causes.
00:08That's when we'll put a sticker on your box that says, yeah, he's cured.
00:12We offer a way out spiritually, emotionally, to get people where they deserve to be.
00:20You know, at the height of my addiction, you know, it was quarter ounce of cocaine over a weekend,
00:24two-fifths of whiskey a day.
00:25I got arrested for my third drunk driving charge, and I stopped, never touched it again, never went to detox.
00:33I've got 106 Ironmans since 1999.
00:37I would never tell him that that's too much or you're done doing them.
00:42He is an example of grit and drive to show people it's okay to be vulnerable.
00:47It's okay to say that you're broken.
00:50It's okay to ask for help.
00:52You smoked crack with your dad when you were 12.
00:59Yes.
01:00And he made me smoke one cigarette after another and inhale until I puked.
01:05Smoked ever since.
01:07The people that are here, they don't understand the impact that they have on me from a motivational standpoint.
01:12Smith & Walden!
01:13Your mom's proud of you. She's looking down on you.
01:18Everybody asks themselves while they're training for one of these is, why the heck am I doing this?
01:24And for me, it's just pushing myself beyond what I ever thought I'd be able to do.
01:30I believe that people that are battling addiction are doing so to cope with some form of trauma.
01:36And mine was losing my mom at an early age.
01:39She didn't have an accident. She chose to kill herself.
01:42I'm really trying to embrace the potential I have to do good with it.
01:48I was running this again out of my closet.
01:50Build my credit up. Lost it. Filed for bankruptcy.
01:53Started over again. All of it to keep racing for recovery going.
01:57We own this thing. We own it.
02:00Sit. Can you sit for me?
02:02He's a bougie pig. He needs a big place, so I bought him that.
02:06Todd Crandell.
02:07Todd Crandell.
02:08Todd Crandell, who completed his 94th Ironman Triathlon.
02:11Todd Crandell.
02:13Everything that I've done seems to rattle cages.
02:16Who I meet. What I do.
02:19I'm not trying to prove anything.
02:21I'm trying to show what can be done.
02:24Racing was the first rehab that I walked into wanting to get help.
02:29Going on three years of having my kids.
02:34There were plenty of times during training that I did want to give up.
02:38This is an addiction. This is what healthy living looks like.
02:41Do you ever contemplate suicide?
02:45Do you ever contemplate suicide?
02:45Do you ever contemplate suicide?
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