Now, first of all, please for one minute don’t start thinking we’re triathlon fans. We promise you will never ever see us even dare to offer advice on how to swim through seaweed, wetsuit reviews or “how to stick/paint your race number to your arm” tutorials.
The reason the title is such is because we were watching a family member of the team compete (and complete) his first Ironman distance Triathlon yesterday.
For the hardcore cyclist who has never looked up what that means it is a 2.4 mile swim in the Thames, a 112 mile cycle and to top it off the small matter of running a marathon. This isn’t over a week by the way it’s only bloody non-stop.
He did it in 12 hours 3 minutes and the bike ride was at an average speed of 19 mph! This guy is an ex-smoker, has just had a baby (well his wife had the baby), in his late forties and had an acl operation on his knee a couple of years back. Oh and he won’t mind us telling you that he was a few too many pounds the wrong side of Pavarotti when he started cycling too!
They started in the dark and they were handing out head torches to some of the finishers – that’s a long day!
How did he do it?
He made a decision, made a plan, committed himself and his passion and guts got him round.
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