A year ago, Steve Bean's 28-year-old son Cameron urged him to sign up for the 2015 Chattanooga, Tennessee, Ironman competition. They trained intensely during that time. Last week, Cameron took a different route for his daily running routine, where he was hit by a car and killed, according to the Times Free Press. His father buried him on Saturday and competed in the race on Sunday in his honor.

Though Cameron was in the hospital for a few days after the accident, his parents knew he would not make it to the race. "We just got up and went downstairs at the hospital," Steve's wife Lisa told the Times Free Press. "I told Steve, 'I feel funny. I'm so calm and so at peace.' And he felt the same way at the same time. I think that's when we received the miracle we prayed for." Cameron had died.

The crowd by the race's finish line roared for Steve as he completed the race in 15:35:28. Many people he had never met carried signs that said "Run Like Cameron" along the way. Even the announcer called Bean out specifically as he finished the race: "Steve, we've been waiting for you all day. Steve! You are an Ironman!" Lisa waited for him at the finish line as well.

"It was a year-long process that we had done together, every single day," Bean told WRCBTV. "And I needed to finish what I, what we, had started."

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