Wow, has it really been almost 2 years since I had a real race? My last triathlon was shortly before my son was born in 2019 and I had planned to take that fall off. The only race I had after that was the Miami half marathon in February of 2020 but Melanie and I run that as a fun run and not a race most years. Then, of course, COVID hit and all of the races I had planned last year were cancelled/rescheduled. When Chattanooga got cancelled, I took the option to defer to 2021, hoping the pandemic would …

Finally!  Race morning! When I woke up on Saturday, around 3:45, I immediately noticed the very ominous howling noise.  It sounded like a freight train was going by outside.  I grabbed my phone and looked at the weather.  Uh oh.  I had a bad feeling when I saw that there were rip current warnings. But I put it out of my mind and continued my morning prep.  Hugo and I got dressed and drove over to the Walmart parking lot to take a shuttle to our special needs bags drop off.  It was COLD. I was not prepared for this …

Almost a year and a half ago, I started a crazy journey that finally culminated at Ironman Florida this past weekend.  Its crazy to think about all of the things that happened to get me to the starting line of the race. Some of it was cosmic intervention. A lot was pure grit. The journey was important though and for anyone that would ever consider taking on something like this, be it an Ironman, a 70.3, marathon or whatever your goal is, enjoy the journey. The end result should be the icing on the cake. I’ll get this part out …