Seven months ago, Waipawa's Terrance McKenzie was watching a triathlon on television and seeing the victor on the podium thought to himself that it would be fun to win another medal.
So what did the 85-year-old do? He started training for the New Zealand national duathlon championships held in Taupo last month and achieved that goal, and also qualified for the world championships next year in Adelaide.
Yes, he was the only competitor in the 85-89-year-old category, but as he wryly quipped "by 85 most guys are dead", so it was a good result all round.
Unsurprisingly, he's no stranger to competitive duathlons, which he took up in his younger days in his home country of South Africa.
In 1955, he came third in the 1000m match sprint at the national championships, and also won the Natal sprint championships, and he represented South Africa at the world duathlon championships in 1996 and 1997.