She has been cancer free since 2008 and just completed her first half Ironman triathlon.
The device also has got all the features of Timex's Ironman Triathlon sports watch.
Cardiac conditions that required surgery have forced into retirement two winners of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.
Just days after New York City's first Ironman triathlon was held, it's unclear whether the event will take place again next year.
Scheidies, who has completed the Ironman Triathlon, which includes a 2.4 mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2 mile marathon, registered for Detroit's Motor City Triathlon on June 17.
Mark Allen, the former All-American swimmer at UC San Diego who went on to win the Ironman Triathlon world title six times, says he finds that kind of fortitude amazing.
People raise money for Team FD by tapping their friends and family for donations before participating in an athletic event that can be anything from a 5K walk to an Ironman triathlon.
"Lance Armstrong is currently still eligible to compete in all USA Triathlon-sanctioned races, with the exception of Ironman events as stated earlier by the World Triathlon Corporation, " said the body's communications director Chuck Menke.
"I never got past being that little girl who thought she couldn't run, " she said, describing how she would watch Ironman competitions with amazement at the monster triathlon.
Armstrong has won two half-distance Ironman events this year, and he is suspended from World Triathlon Corporation competitions.
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The mishap occurred a mile north of where the contest's swim was supposed to start, and was two weeks before that year's annual Olympic-length triathlon (which is about four times shorter than an Ironman).
He is forgoing Ironman races to focus on short course racing again in hopes of qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (an Olympic distance triathlon is about one-quarter the distance of an Ironman).
Triathlon is so poorly followed a sport that even its premier event next month's Ironman World Championship receives no live coverage outside of being streamed onto Ironman's own website.
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