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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 25, 2011 -- What they don't know is that they are talking to perhaps the fastest blind Ironman triathlete in the world. At the recent Memorial Hermann HP0-M48 Ironman Texas in Woodlands, Texas, Walsh swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles, and ran 26.2 miles in 11 hours and 50 minutes.

That's four hours faster than the previous Ironman record held by a blind woman. That time also beat the Ironman record held by the fastest blind man in history—not by seconds, but by 55 minutes.

"I enjoy bragging rights and knowing in my own head and in my own backbone what I'm capable of," said Walsh, a software design engineer in test for OneNote. "I've done a lot in the morning before most people wake up."

Walsh remembers having eyesight. She had it until kindergarten, when doctors discovered a pediatric craniopharyngioma brain tumor above her pituitary gland and below her optic nerve.

"The good news is I got more than I ever HP0-M48 hoped for. I've watched dream after dream come true. I have more than recovered. Recovery happened a long time ago. With a full recovery came a tremendous reverence for my life and good fortune," Walsh wrote years later as part of the Children's Hospital Story Project. "I've built a beautiful life for myself."