First blog, first post
On Monday, July 24, 2006 I signed up to compete in the 2007 Ironman USA in Lake Placid, New York on July 22, 2007. It will be my first Ironman race. Today is Thursday, September 21, 2006 and as of right now, I have 10 months and 2 days to prepare. In fact, if all goes well, 10 months and 3 days from right now, I’ll be about two and a half hours into the bike leg and probably deeply questioning my sanity.
This is my first post in what will hopefully be a 10-month journal of my training, racing and living in preparation for the Ironman. I’ve got lots of grand ideas about the content of this blog, but let’s start slowly and just spend some time getting thoughts posted.
I’m not sure yet if I’ll tell anyone about this blog – at this point, it’s mostly for me to record my life.
I’m not sure yet how often I’ll write – my goal is to write on a near-daily basis, but that might be a hard promise to keep.
Soon, I want to cover a bit of who I am, my althletic and triathlon history, why I signed up for the Ironman, why I want to write this blog and what I hope to take out of the whole experience. I also want this blog to serve as something of a training log.
so, what kind of competition is the ironman race? is it only a bicycle racing or does it like a triathlon?
I hope you can prepare yourself well for this this race…
Amazing. I got a comment. Thanks and thanks for the encouragement! The Ironman is a triathlon, just a really really long one. The distances are: 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run. The fastest people in the world do it in 8 to 8.5 hours. I’m not sure how long it will take me, but certainly much longer than that.
Now that you’ve asked, I’ll include a post soon with some more basic triathlon info.