Okay, so, I’m doing Ironman Wisconsin this coming Sunday.
It’s a triathlon with a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile run.
Umm, so basically it’s going to take a long time.
During the race I will be wearing a little chip on my ankle, and every time I run or bike across this mat it will record my time and all this other fancy jazz about how I’m doing so far and upload it to the internet!
So, if you would like to track how I’m doing at any given point in the day, up until I finish hopefully before 8PM EST, this is how you do it.
Starting raceday, Sunday at 7AM Central Time, you can go to www.ironman.com
In the middle of the page there will be a link for Ironman Wisconsin, click the one that says Athlete Tracking
A new page will open up, in the search field of that page, enter the number 112, that is my athlete number. It will open up a new page that will show all sorts of cool data about how I’m doing.
Ummm, yeah.
Good luck. Wish I could compete in Iron Man events. I love the idea of tri’s but my body doesn’t hold up to the training on top of my job. If I have some free time I’ll be keeping and eye on your times. Also is this your first iron distance?
Good luck Habby.
Have fun.
I came across your picture on Facebook the other day and you are looking quite lean and chiseled. Impressive!
Good luck with the Ironman. That is a formidable amount of work to cover all those miles… something I wouldn’t even do at gunpoint. I hope you have fun!
Thanks everyone!!
I’m pretty pumped right now. It’s my first Iron distance.
Once again, I’m #112, I also found out that I am the third youngest person racing today.
My goals in order of importance:
- Finish
- Finish in under 12 hours
- Finish the run in under 4 hours
- Stay up till midnight after the race to watch the last person finish
- Be the fastest teenager
PS Earlier this week Ford had a booth set up where you could leave messages to athletes on the run course and I wrote on for myself that says “MRIS GO! GO! GO!” (:
Love your work.
According to the IM site, Nick finished in 13:26:59.
I can’t really think of anything I’ve done for over 13 hours straight. Except for sleeping.
You’re a manimal, Nick! Congrats on the finish. Any plans to do another?
Now that you mention it, ugh.
Well done indeed.
What happened on the run?
You we’re aiming for sub4 and ended up at 5h30.
And how did you do on point 4 of your goals?
Sorry I’m just now reporting back.
I pushed the bike way to hard to go sub 4 at all. Going into the day I did not even believe I had a bike time that fast in me. Even if I just toughened up it wouldn’t have been possible. I think if I did shuffle/run my hardest I could have gone at best around a 4:20-4:30 run, but I wasn’t mentally ready for a day that tough.
Around the mile 20 mark of the run it hit me that aside getting hit by a car I was going to finish and at that point I started walking more often, I think besides the run to the finish line I walked the last 3 miles pretty much straight out. I was really just happy to finish. It was a hotter day than I ever trained in.
Definitely don’t want to do another full Iron distance for a while. I just don’t have what it takes right now to go out and go fast all day long like that. I do plan on getting a lot faster at the shorter distances and moving up though. You’ll find at this distance the 35-39 and 40-44 age group has the faster competitive times overall.
I had a blast though and will be going back to volunteer and just watch the race in general. I would definitely recommend it to anyone if there is a local long distance triathlon near you. The guts and determination you will see out there are unmatched of anything I’ve seen.
There was no way I could stay up till midnight, finished at 8:30 local time, went in and waited in line to get a massage, my dad(who was a wonderfull helper all weekend) went and got my gear bags and bike and loaded up the car while I waited/slept for my massage, we ended up back at the hotel around 11 and I was out cold.
No problem. You’ve had a tough day. We understand.
Nice work setting and following your goals. It makes no sense to risk your main goal pushing too hard to get the secondary.
I’ve heard it said that the endurance stuff is an ‘old man’s game’, and apparantly I’m quite the expert at being old.
Your plan of focussing on the shorter distances sounds like a good one.
But well don’t on finishing.
Well DONE, apologies for the typo.
+1.
How’d you ever get time to post here AND train?
Here are some pictures if you’d like.
GAAH! Nick, in a Speedo, on a b*ke. That’s anti-porn!