The Iron Geek

My personal journey of going from an overweight IT leader to an Ironman.

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An Ironman starts by swimming 2.4 miles…

I did something this morning that I didn’t know was even possible until it happened.  I swam 2.4 miles.

I. Swam. Two-Point-Four. Miles.

Holy Friggin Crap!

It took me 1 hour, 34 minutes and 37 seconds to swim 3,850 meters in the pool.  In that roughly 95 minutes, I conquered my biggest fear when it comes to completing an Ironman.  The swim.  

I now know that I can do it, and I can do it well within the cut-off time (2:20).  I now have just under 14 weeks to make it smoother and to make it faster.

I’m still in shock that I did it.  Absolute disbelief.  My longest swim before this morning was 1,000 yards.    I told my swim coach that my goal was to come in under 2:00 and he told me that “I think you’ll be surprised at your time.”  He was right.  Boohyah!

It took me about 1,000m just to settle in to a consistent breathing pattern, where I didn’t feel like I needed more air.  After that it was just lap, after lap, after lap, after lap. (158 lengths of the pool to be exact).  All this while I am coming down with a cold.

My shoulders and neck are sore, but it was totally worth it.

=)

Notes

  1. hackingme said: Wow! that’s AWESOME! Well done. I’ve always wondered - when training for such a swim in a pool, do you do flip turns or just touch and gos? (that many flip turns would be exhausting!) If u r doing flip turns your “straight” time will be even better!
  2. finding-zen said: Very nice dude!
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