IronMAY or is it Iron MAYden?
Iron Man.
He’s the super hero in the theaters this week, but if you are a triathlete Iron Man means another thing entirely.
2.4 mile swim, 112 bike and 26.2 mile run.
All together. Well, not at same time all together, but one after the other.
The longest triathlon distance I’ve completed is a few Intermediate distances: .93 mile swim, 25 bike and 6.2 run.
But it’s been a while.
Since I got the big birthday coming up this summer, I thought I’d do my 10th triathlon. My first in five years.
So when I saw my friend posting all this IronMAY 140.6 data “10 miles on bike. Hope to get a run in after work” — I became curious.
It turns out the IronMAY concept is to complete one (or as many as you can) Iron Man distances — 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles bike and 26.2 miles run — in the month of May.
When I finally slowed down to read the concept and that there would be a donation to the Challenged Athlete Federation I thought why not?
This might get me in the pool more and on my bike a lot more.
We get his cool medal at the end. Which is nice.
So I’ve got my little spread sheet where I’m to enter all my distances and time.
And for being an incredibly random thinker, I love plugging in number to a good spreadsheet.
Signing up on the sixth of the month puts me at a serious disadvantage to winning this thing — but I could do it.
And monkeys will fly out of my butt.
No. This is not about winning. It is about completing the distance though and I could do three rounds of the bike and swim easy, it’s just that darned bike.
But this will be a good thing for me regardless if I complete the total 140.6 miles once or three times.
Take today. I planned to go swim for an hour this afternoon before the kids got home. One thing lead to another and I didn’t leave as planned. If I didn’t have a goal to be shooting for, I’d probably just have stayed home and worked.
But the new IronMAYden I am now, I got up there for a half an hour and swam 1500 yards.
And I’m 1500 yards closer to my medal.
What do you think? IronMAY for you?
