I've been virtually stalking someone today. I even got his wife's permission. In fact, she asked me several times for updates. You see, today my brother-in-law was competing in his first Iron Man competition. He's done a few marathons and I even think a triathlon or two but an Iron Man... that's HUGE. She's been waiting for him to finish, but the cell service where the race is hasn't been that great so I've been texting her updates.
This morning as I was struggling to get in my 4 miles on the treadmill (training for my first half marathon) I kept thinking of him and how grueling it must be to train for and complete an Iron Man. For those that aren't aware, it involves 2.4 miles of swimming in open water (in this case a lake), followed by 112 miles on a bicycle, and finishing up with 26.2 miles of running. I'm tired just typing that.
As I was interrupted by one of my children, I thought about how hard it's been for me to find the time to train consistently. Then I thought about how hard it must be to train for an Iron Man. So not only am I going to give props to my BIL, I'm also going to give props to my sister-in-law too. I know there have been MANY days when she handled everything alone so he could train. But today it all came together when he finished in 11:00:12 hours! And he finished 59th out of 305 in his age category. Way to go!
An inspiration to me for sure. Is there an Iron Man in my future? Certainly not. But a couple days ago I was thinking of giving up on trying to even do the half marathon, so he's at least inspired me to keep training for that.
Way to go to the BIL!! That's huge! I know the Sprint that I did was so much fun, but even the training for that would be too much for me at present and thus, also major props to your SIL!!! :)
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