2017 IRONMAN ARIZONA | BEHIND THE SCENES

The conclusion of the 2017 IRONMAN race season was bittersweet, but, the impact left on the beautiful town of Tempe and its surrounding communities will last long after race day and excites us to what lies ahead in 2018!

We started off our race week off with “The Athlete In You, A Proud Tradition”, a service project, in which we hosted a variety of workshops including nutrition, yoga and a athlete panel discussion, at the Salt River High School located in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. We also hosted our “We’ve Got Your Back(pack)” mini service project in IRONMAN Village on Friday and Saturday leading up to race day, where IRONMAN athletes stuffed over 150 backpacks for the students of Salt River Elementary school. Thanks to the support of 245 IRONMAN Foundation athletes, we were able to distribute more than $65,000 in giveback to nonprofit groups and initiatives in the greater Tempe area, including a $10,0000 Community Grant to the Salt River Children’s Foundation!

With this being the last race of the 2017 IRONMAN season, your team behind the team here at IMF would love to hug you all individually, however, since that would take a lot of airline miles, we would just like to say many thanks to all of our IRONMAN Foundation athletes who made the commitment to dedicate their race(s) to #RaceForMore this year. The impact we’ve left behind this year in all of our race communities could not be possible without you, and for that, we thank you! We are looking forward to an amazing 2018 and hope you join us for another year of leaving our impact(s) long after race day(s)!