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This site is about IRON, specifically my IRON. My metal sort of speak. Since the age of 18 I have wanted to run an IRONMAM ® Triathlon. I remember watching the Hawaiian IRONMMAN ® on TV way back when and thinking that this is an incredible race done by extraordinary people. Back then triathlons were a relatively new sport, and not well known. I remember telling my parents about my first sprint series triathlon and they just didn’t get it. In fact, I can remember my mom having a cow when I spent a months pay on a new bike to upgrade from the overweight Schwinn touring bike I was riding.
Some friends introduced me to cycling and soon I was riding with a group doing Saturday morning rides of about 35 miles and I was riding almost every day after work, which was easy to do in Florida during the summer when you had daylight until nine o’clock. Running was next and it sucked! I always hated to run. You see I was an offensive lineman for my high school football team and it was always about how much weight you could pack on, or lifting weights to bulk up. They didn’t want you running because you might loose weight. I eventually overcame my fear of running with some mental exercises that focused more on why running was fun I was able to find running enjoyable, image that. Swimming was sort of natural for me. I spent one summer in a neighbor’s pool doing laps everyday until I was up to doing a mile at a stint I also lived a few miles from the beach so I was always in the water.
Soon, I was doing small triathlons and enjoying being in shape, and feeling like I could take on the world. In fact I had my eye on trying to get into Navy S.E.A.L. training which to me added another torture element to all this physical conditioning.
Then one day while sitting in one of my college classes in walks in this gorgeous blonde, and that was all she wrote. Now, after almost 20 years of marriage to that gorgeous blonde, and three wonderful kids later I have begun to wonder. Can I get back on the wagon and actually start pursuing my dream of IRON? I realize that I can’t even run a 5K right now let alone a marathon. But I gain inspiration from the 60, 70 and even 80 year olds out there that are running these events. If they can do it why can’t I?
So join me as I blog about my ups and downs, about my training methods, how I progress or digress, and hopefully a few years down the road I’ll be writing about what it felt like to cross that finish line, and call myself an Ironman!
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