Now I have started doing the calculations on how much I have to increase every 4 weeks in order to do this IM. The figure is staggering to me right now. So I thought I was going to have to crack out "breaking away" or "American flyers" (More on American flyers" in another blog) for some inspiration but then the channel "US" had the 2007 World Championship Ironman on. This gave me a ton of inspiration.
The race that year was the year Macca finally won and Chrissie Wellington appeared on the scene completely out of the blue. In fact so out of the blue that there is hardly any footage of her as she was a virtual nobody then. Its always great to see people complete the event and it was kind of a shock how harsh they are with the cut offs.
There were the other competitors they always follow too who have come back from major adversity and a great remembrance of Jonathan S. Blais who completed the 2006 Ironman and who has since lost his fight with ALS.
At the start of the event the showed an over weight gentleman climbing out of the water and asked "Could he finish?". Well the answer was yes he could! I looked him up online after the race and his name is Murray Frank. He was around 250 lbs at the time and he had been doing a few Ironman up to that. It was great he finished and his family came over the line too. Nice one.
These people have all given me hope that I can pull this off.
I'm looking forward to my 4 mile run tomorrow now!
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