When we first decided to do IronMan Madison, back in September of 2008, I think it was kind of a one-off idea. You know, climb the mountain, plant the flag and be done. And you know, immediately after the race last year...I was pretty sure I was "all-good" with doing any more IronMan events.(If you want to read about last year's adventure you can go to: http://brianironman09.blogspot.com/)
In fact, when we could have registered the day after the race...we thought: "no...we're good; we'll take a pass on doing this again".
Yeah Right!
It didn't take long for us to have some remorse about not signing up and not too long after that I ad the "great" idea of doing all of the IronMan events in the US. So we hurried and looked through the list and picked IronMan Louisville. It is the only other event that is realistic to drive to from Minnesota, plus it had open registration spots left for 2010. So we plunked down our registration fees, reserved a hotel and BAM! It all started over again.
This race will have some new challenges that IM Madison did not. Two big ones come to mind: 1) the heat (Kentucky in August is HOT!) and 2) the current of the Ohio river (the swim course is in a river not a lake...and you guessed it, the first part of the swim is UP stream).
More to come on the race course, etc. and once the "official" training starts I will do weekly (or more) updates on what's happening, etc. For now...I'm starting to work with a swim coach to help refine my swimming a bit. We're also planning to do a number of events before the IronMan. I broke the 400-mile mark for the year last week and running has been going well (knock on wood).
Anyway...stay tuned, there's much more to come!
