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2009-03-20 2:10 PM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-20 2:52 PM I also had it in my mind I was getting a tattoo after completing my first IM, maybe even before heading back home.  Had no desire to get the tattoo after the race or now. 

No joke, at IMFL it is out of season for Panama City Beach and a lot of shops used to close .... many of the tattoo places stay open now for just this express purpose!!

After I KQ and finish Kona I will design a kick azz one and get it then.  But only after I finish Kona, not any time before.

2009-03-20 2:16 PM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-20 2:52 PM I also had it in my mind I was getting a tattoo after completing my first IM, maybe even before heading back home.  Had no desire to get the tattoo after the race or now. 

No joke, at IMFL it is out of season for Panama City Beach and a lot of shops used to close .... many of the tattoo places stay open now for just this express purpose!!

After I KQ and finish Kona I will design a kick azz one and get it then.  But only after I finish Kona, not any time before.

Check out livestrong's IMAZ report.  Dude went right from the finish line to the tat parlor, then came right back

2009-03-20 2:18 PM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-19 10:08 PM

Question for all fist time Ironman finishers....Was it everything you expected at the finish and weeks after or were the videos more hype than the real life experience?  For me the videos where inspirational, but when I finished and weeks after it was a let down.  It's not post depression, it was the hype I saw in the videos, but in reality for me, it was like finishing a long day of training. Not a life changing accomplishment.  Any thoughts?  No Dr. Phils please, not looking for counseling, just  your thoughts on the Ironman videos and if you experiences thoses feelings or feelings like mine.

You should be lucky you didn't experiance some of those finishes! I had one of those drop down finishes, not right after crossing the line but about 2mins after when the adreniline died off I threw up and started slurring horribly and couldn't function my hands!

After my first IM, Floirda 2006, I was just happy to get it done with because I was really close to burnout, but then after the race I got pretty depressed, but its the Post Ironman Blues!

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2009-03-20 2:47 PM
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One of my finisher friends told me "The Ironman race day is simply the victory lap to celebrate your sucessful training."

I kind of like that idea.

 

2009-03-20 3:18 PM
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agarose2000 - 2009-03-20 11:12 AM Maybe we should all try running in slo-mo in the final mile to make it more dramatic?

 

I did the last 26.2 miles in slo-mo.  The only thing that was missing was Six Million Man music.

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2009-03-20 3:31 PM
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leopard8996 - 2009-03-20 2:07 PM

FWIW - The race can be as awesome or as tedious as you make it. Once the cannon went off I went through the day in celebration mode and I swear even looking back on it now that I didn't stop smiling the entire day. It was just fun and that was because that's how I approached it

 

That pretty much sums it up for me too.  I just thouroughly enjoyed the whole day.  Being out there with 2,000 like-minded people doing what we love all day long...man, it just don't get no better than that!!

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2009-03-20 6:52 PM
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After all this talk about finishing and not feeling the expected finish hype, if your wondering how I did..well, I wanted to finish under 12 hours and I did 11:52 and change.  I'd be lieing if I said it was what  I wanted, no matter how well we do, we always want better and look back at different points in the race and say, I could have done this or that better or differently. 11 hour would have been better, but then again so would 10 hours..
2009-03-21 5:31 PM
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Correction, 11:50:55.  Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time.  Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it.  We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than  our expected time. 

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!

2009-03-22 9:09 AM
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I expected my IM finish to do some change for me also but what I realized was that training and toeing the line at a IM does not bring about any changes but just blows the dust off of what we have inside us... It was always there, it just takes being commited to something for a year and training really hard to bring it to the top.
2009-03-22 9:20 AM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-21 5:31 PM

Correction, 11:50:55.  Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time.  Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it.  We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than  our expected time. 

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!

People's goals are their own.  It's not your (or anybody's) place to tell them what they should or shouldn't be shooting for.



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2009-03-22 9:39 AM
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I still respect all of you IM finishers immensely...and those that attempt and don't finish just as much.

Like anything in life, it's what you make of it. I hope that one day I am able to fulfill my dream of attempting and completing 140.6. My 70.3 day was one I will never forget. What a great day.


2009-03-22 9:58 AM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-21 3:31 PM

Correction, 11:50:55.  Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time.  Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it.  We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than  our expected time. 

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!

You're kidding.....right?

2009-03-22 10:21 AM
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BellinghamSpence - 2009-03-22 9:58 AM
geekball2 - 2009-03-21 3:31 PM

Correction, 11:50:55.  Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time.  Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it.  We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than  our expected time. 

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!

You're kidding.....right?

 

I think he was having a 'ST moment'.  :-)

 

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2009-03-22 8:52 PM
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geekball2 - 2009-03-21 5:31 PM

Correction, 11:50:55. Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time. Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it. We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than our expected time.

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!



To me, a goal of "just finishing"... means just that... to finish no matter what happens during the day... and to be happy when you cross the finish line.

If you are so tied up in "I must finish by this time or faster", you can quickly lose your positive attitude and get grumpy while racing. Which means your memory of the day is tarnished with those thoughts of, "I should have gone faster".

I know I went in HOPING that I would finish in under 15 hours... I didn't. But it didn't matter to me when I crossed the finish line. After knowing one of my friends couldn't finish the race... I was even that much happier to make it across.

Oh... and I had to take up walking on the marathon... cause both my Achilles tendons started to hurt really bad about mile 80 on the bike. I was planning for a walk/run combo anyways... but after a mile I knew it was going to be a solid walk. So I walked as fast as I could.


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2009-03-22 9:00 PM
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Correction, 11:50:55. Hard to give away 2 minutes when it's all about time. Lets face it, anyone who claims it's all about finishing no matter what time is full of it. We all have a time in our head we trained for and in the end, we want to do even better than our expected time.

If your goal in Ironman is just to finish......take up walking!

With the "just finish time in my head of 16:59:59, I guess I'll take up walking. 

Thanks for the training tip!!!

2009-03-22 11:22 PM
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I think alot of how that Ironman Finishing moment depends on what you your expectations are coming in, what you experienced during the the course of the race, and what the race means to you personally. For me at IMFL, I was so tired and so ready to be done that I really didn't have alot of emotion crossing that line. It was more a sense of relief that it was over. I had met my time goal, and I didn't have to struggle, but I was just glad it was done.

A week or so later when I was preparing to give a speech to my kid's class about IMFL and the importance of staying fit, that was when it hit me. I realized how far I had come; losing 60 pounds, building my endurance level from couch potatoe to IM over four long years, that I had accomplished something I had truely believed was impossible for me (prior to starting, after getting my butt kicked in my first tri, first Olympic, and first HIM). I had faced the fear at the start, not knowing if I was capable of putting it all together, but was will to try. Only then did the emotion come out.

However, for Kona that race WAS my dream and the race meant the world to me, and the finishing moment didn't disapoint. And in Arizona, I had to fight though some serious adversity, cramps and dehydration and rallied to finish strong over the last loop in the marathon and that finishing moment was very powerful.



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