MR Sze Mun Yee

The Bumble Bee in Me MR Sze Mun Yee

Ironmen are supposed to look like Hollywood hunks or Greek statues. Yee Sze Mun looks like neither: barely 5' tall and in his 80th year, his iron is in the unbreakable spirit which has carried him to the finish of the Hawaii Ironman epic no less than five times in his sixties and seventies! That's a 3.8km swim in the wild Pacific Ocean, a 180km bike ride and 42km marathon over a windswept volcanic island - and he's hungry for more, not having started this hobby-turned-obsession until his doctor told him to lose weight at the age of 50. This is a selection of short stories and anecdotes from Yee Sze Mun, born in the Chinese year of the Ox in 1937 and 16 times Ironman finisher. In these very personal and often humorous stories, he takes you through his evolution from amateur sportsman to becoming Malaysia's first Ironman Hall of Fame recipient in 2015. Yee Sze Mun truly embodies the spirit of a bumble bee - a small insect with an overly large round body and very small wings, which should in theory never be able to fly. If the bumble bee continues to fly happily against all aeronautical principles it must simply be because he believes in himself. It it this belief that has driven Yee Sze Mun to be a 16 times Ironman finisher and to continually defy father time.