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Race Reports for Ironman Florida 2005

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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Avg HR for race was 142
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: A Little Background... This is the race day story of someone who went from the couch to my first Ironman in one year. I had done the Gulf Coast Half in 2003 and was well on my way when my father was diagnosed with lung cancer and died only five weeks later. I gained 10lbs and did absolutely nothing athletic for about six months. I then ran a marathon in his memory and only a couple months later, my grandmother died. I did nothing again for about six months until a friend talked me into signing up for this race. We were both in really bad shape and I told him he was crazy, but we signed up anyway. It gave me a purpose and I decided to do the race in their memory with a goal of just to finish within the time limit. We pittled around a little trying to get back into some sort of decent shape and then we bought "Be Iron Fit" by Don Fink and decided to do the competitive 30 week program. We needed to do the competitive program just to get us into "just finish" shape! Onto race day... Before
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I have much more respect for the distance then I did before the race. That run is no joke. Suffering a little letdown because as of right now, I have no future triathlon plans. Sorry if the report is all over the board, I still haven't completely collected my thoughts.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Just after I went to Bed, Ken and I stopeed at Walmart and bought IceCream... and ate a whole deal of it... Felt great, Got a call from my wife and went to bed... aaaahhhhh...what a feeling It was great to meet all the Bt'ers... Jess and Renne, karl (motivated), larry (Ladavidson) and Brett (alpine87), and of course Ken, and Sherry (Oliveview). I must tell you guys... the incredible feeling of accomplishment has not left my body yet... I loved every minute of it.... I loved the feeling of getting there and knowing I would finish..... time was unimportant for me, just the fact that I was out there is indeed a blessing. I am not an athlete, I consider myself a guy happy to be alive, happy to be able to put one foot in front of the other, happy to cross that finish line. I am an Ironman, yes I can finally say it.. I am an IRONMAN, OOOOHHHHYYYYEEEAAA!!! Before the start as we started to position for the race, I notice an incredible amount of people that in many people's
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: It feels awesome to be an Ironman! Sprints and Oly's never looked so easy!
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities?
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race, signed up again in 06
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