You tell me am I the average first time Ironman.....
6ft-210lbs.
Been active pretty much my whole life However..........after I got married fell into some bad habits like eating a lot and not excercising and got up to 245 lbs. My wife and I then started running together, and collected more 5k shirts than I could count. (1999) The 5ks begat 10ks which begat half marathons, which begat full marathons. Here are my times:
2002 Chicago 5:00 (I ran my first marathon probably at 230 lbs)
2004 Chicago 4:45
2006 Whistle Stop 4:30
2007 Grandmas 5:45 (Ill tell you the story later)
2009 Twin Cities 4:15 (220 lbs)
( I feel there is a sub 4 in me somewhere.)
Sprinkled in there were sprint and olypmic triathlons from all over the Midwest but the last one I did was back in 2003. But just like most of you wantabee Ironmans I saw the NBC coverage of Ironman Kona and I knew I wanted to participate.
So that brings us to the present (sort of), you know how you secretly have a goal and you start telling people about it in hopes that the more you say it the more you are inclined to do it? Well for the last 5 years I would sneak into conversations that I wanted to do the IM before I was 40. Well up until about September 2010 nobody either cared or knew what I was talking about so I was pretty much talking about the dream but not doing anything about it. Well I made the wonderful mistake of telling a buddy of mine AZ that I wanted to do an IM, well I got a call from him about 2 weeks later saying, lets to the IMCDA. CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been caught.
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