Since my comeback to competing in Triathlons in 2007 - I have been keeping in the back of my mind to do another Ironman, especially once I age up into a new Age group category 45-49 (How did I get so old?) Well, last week I signed up for Ironman Canada that will occur August 29th 2010. The last time I did this event was in 1993. I finished the 2.4 mile swim in 51:20 and had the 11th fastest swim. The 112 mile bike in 5:52, and finished the 26 miles in 4:31 minutes My total time was 11:15. 
Overall, this race was a disappointment - I had mechanical problems on the bike where I could not shift down into my lower gears for the 2 mountain passes that were on the bike (plus somehow I did not quite realize in my training there were 2 mountain passes) By the time I got to the run my legs were shot, and I did all I could to just hang on.
Well now having signed up my goal is to somehow improve my marathon time by 30 minutes, improve my bike time by at least 15 minutes, and be competitive on the swim. Its hard to believe that what 17 years has transpired. My goal time is 10 hours 30 minutes.
I think will be creating a separate training and triathlon blog - to blog my progress to my goals.
2 comments:
Wow! That is very impressive (to say the least)!!!
We will be watching your progress
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