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Coeur d’Alene June 22 2008

A Very awsome experience.

I was dumbfounded at the swim. My friend Brian Travis was doing it with his whole family. A family of triathlon freaks. His father had turned 60 this day and was doing his twenty something IronMan. The swimming event was the best. An insane amount of people started, like 2300, jumping into the blender together. Brian had got hit in the eye, someone hit his ear and broke his ear drum, he was nauseous and dizzy the whole swim. They cut the swim off at 2 hrs 20 minutes. If you cannot finish it, you nicely get the axe from the race judges when you exit the water. We were witness to about 4 people that got cut out of the race because of that. There is also a bike cutoff time and a run cutoff time. Brian’s mother Carol came in about 1130 pm. 58 years old.

Total the swim is 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and a marathon=26 mile run.

IronMan is my ultimate goal of 2010. I will register next year 2009 this time. 500 dolores 8(. But well worth it considering the last end of the gantlet run when you pass spectators cheering you on and some guy on a mic yells YOU ARE AN IRONMAN. They cut the race off at 12 midnight due to safety reasons. The last person is was a 60 something male with a gut. He made it in about 11:59, with the whole crowd singing and dancing the Y M C A song.. We cheered him in. Ten minutes before, some delirious 40 something guy was running in, dizzy smiling slapping fans hands then 10 yards before the finish line, BAM fell on his chest and bounced off the ground like a fish. He stumbled onto his feet and crossed the line; every one cheering him on. He was smiling.

This is the swim.

A total BLENDER.

I found a pic on the site, this is what you would look like if you crossed.

More pix of the event here on flickr. Check out the ending shots with parents crossing over into heaven with their kids and family at their sides.

Here is the a partial video of the start of the swim. The gun went off pretty fast, and I did not get the very start.

Also, I ended up splurging some cash out for a top of the line suit. A 2xU suit, Their homepage is here.

Brian with his mother, father, and brother did the Ironman together. A family Affair!
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Me in my new Batman at sea suit. Peter, a young and upcoming triathlete like me and the stepson of my friend Brian were trying out our suits in the cold water of lake Coeur d'Alene.

Did another Duathlon today. The Moses Lake Spring festival. I used my green machine bike I built, and FLEW!
I actually felt ok during the 2nd run too! The bike was actually better than my first duathlon. I had to do that on my mountain bike, and it was an 18 mile bike, not a short 12 like todays.

I have been working out between alternating biking and running up a canyon hill behind my home. It has really built up my resiliency, and made the whole physical and mental aspects of the duathlon, EASIER!, Fotos soon..

Afterwards I went Carp Bow fishing with my dad around Marsh Island. Bowfishing has been a family past time for the last 25 years. Separate post soon.
Here are some images of the event. My father had the opportunity to use his photography skills with the D100.

Before the race. There were not a lot of Duathloners. More fun run types.

Wednesday, April 30, 7:31 PM – marco:

I finished a half marathon a few weeks ago. 2:07

I am planning to do an Olympic size Triathlon this summer.

Feeling ok, and losing weight.!

Had a routine MRI last week and seeing speech therapist.

Well, an eight month project has come to an end. My friend Brian gave me and old mid 90 specialized road bike frame. I decided to Frankenstein it and build it up with mid level components off of ebay. I ended up getting it powder coated granny smith green. I am planning to ugrade to some durace downtube shifters and a shortcage derailleur on the back so the components work smoothly. I will buy a new bike in 2 yrs but this will due for now. And I will be faster than the yellow clunker of a mtn bike I used for my duathlon and sprint triathlon last year.

Pues si, aqui mi Frankenstein bici, asi lo voy a usar hasta compro un nuevo en 2 anyos.

Pues si, aqui mi Frankenstein bici, asi lo voy a usar hasta compro un nuevo en 2 años.

Today at the Marathon, during the Half, I saw a 70 something running way behind. He appeared to limp run on one side. He looked like he had some minor hemiparesis. Point is. He was doing it because he could. Being at these events and seeing amateurs compete makes one thing, hell WTF am I complaining for.

I’ve been trying to encourage some people to do beginner triathlons and mini runs. I’m getting pretty tired when I hear people tell me, “Oh I’m too old, my stomach hurts”. etc. Now if my friends told me, “Well man, I weigh 600 pounds”-then I might cut them some slack. The guy below in the vid sure won’t.

Quite the inspiration here.Hoy en el medio maratón que corría yo, había uno de sesenta algo señor que tenia algo de hemiparesis. O sea. el lo corría en el medio maratón porque podía. De estar en tales eventos notando que los secos, los medios secos, rellenos, ya hasta los muy rellenon se va competiéndose.

He estado tratando de animar mis amigos de hacer triatalons y me dicen cosas como, “ay no puedo, me duele la panza, soy viejo” etc.
Pues si, si me dijeron que pesaban 600 libras, entonces los entendería, pero el chamaco abajo en el vídeo no.

Que inspiración aquí.