Richard started his sports life at a very young age, starting with skateboarding where he learned how to stand up with 2 years old. At 12 years of age, Richard started playing basketball competitively in Brazil and as part of preparation for basketball, he started to run. He did his first road race at 15. With 17 years of age, Richard stopped basketball and did 2 years of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. After that, Richard took a wrong turn and got really unhealthy. In 2004, in order to get in shape, he started to train with a triathlon doing his first race in August 2004—a half ironman in 5 hours and 41 minutes. Since then he never stopped, and now he trains 30 hours plus a week chasing a Kona spot in the professional field and has completed 16 ironmans, and more than 17 half-ironman
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