From Couch to 5K to Ironman to Ultramarathons
As we were heading down the driveway this morning on our way to church, I saw a most unpleasant sight in the front yard. Over the past 6 months we have had several armadillos tearing up our flower beds and evidently the flower bed had its revenge…… or some other creature which I couldn’t… [Continue Reading]
Prologue I have been doing triathlons now since 2004. And besides the charity part, my main reasons for doing them are to stay in shape and because I enjoy a challenge. I enjoy it when people tell me that “You shouldn’t do that” or “You can’t do that”. Because that is usually… [Continue Reading]
Okay folks. Pull up your Lazy-boy and get ready for a long one. The History The story begins in a galaxy far, far away. Actually not that far. It just seems like that. It all began after I did my first Ironman triathlon in 2005. It was done and I… [Continue Reading]
This report may be spread out over several posts. Some by me. Hopefully one by Christine and Marcelo. It would be difficult to put the entire experience down at one writing. This past Saturday I ran in the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, Tennessee. My two main reasons for running this race:… [Continue Reading]
Early Sunday morning, we made our trek to St. Francisville for the Baton Rouge Bike Club Fall Century. The weather was perfect and I was looking forward to a great ride. Christine and I had decided to do the metric century (62 miles) and we had a lot of friends riding with us.… [Continue Reading]
I actually got to do one event on my calendar this year! And even it was in jeopardy because of weather. But I had decided they would have to cancel the event and make us go home before I would give up. But the weather was great with only a 5 minute… [Continue Reading]
After an early wake up of 4:00 AM, I started the walk of silence down to the race site. It is very eerie seeing hundreds of people all heading to the same destination: a long day of unknown difficulties and almost certain pain. I dropped off my special needs bags, got body marked with my… [Continue Reading]
I finished and I am an Ironman (again). I will post a real race report with excruciating details later. I am still tired. No tags for this post.
For the other 51 weeks in the past year, this week was just an asterisk on the calendar. Now the asterisk has jumped off the calendar and slapped me upside the head. No matter what mental delusion games I play, at the end of this week I will compete in the Ironman Florida Triathlon. And… [Continue Reading]
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