Jun 23, 12:17 PM by Kimberly | Idaho here I come!
Posted in Triathlon
Yours truly is signed up for an Ironman- Coeur d’Alene! I’m so excited. Registration opened today at 12:00PM, and there were a few tense minutes when I kept getting a message that Active.com was too busy. I called Steve and he tried to register me over on his end. There was some marital discord when he said he didn’t think I’d get in, but we worked it out :). And then I got in, and paid, and have my confirmation!
I didn’t do much run training for IMAZ, but I’m convinced that’s not why I didn’t finish. In retrospect, I had a migraine. IMAZ was before I knew what my headache/stomach problem was. But now that I know, I recognize that the same things that gives me migraines now were in full force that day: Heat, heat & heat. My stomach felt the same way that it feels now during a migraine: I can only think of eating happy carbs. I felt a lot better after I sat behind one of the boxes of ‘special needs’ bags in the shade, closed my eyes, laid down & had some cold Coke that they were passing around to the volunteers. (I must have been there for at least half an hour. I don’t really know.) It’s not to say that Ironmans don’t make your stomach upset, because they do, but the stomach wasn’t the real problem. It was the migraine, and if I had my migraine medicine that I do now, I’m convinced I could have kept going and not lost so much time just sitting there, and would have had more energy in general to finish.
But I plan to do more than just finish next year. I’m going to set a time goal for each part and try to beat it.
Awesome Goal Kim…
— Chester at Jun 27, 10:11 PMCompleting an Iron man takes an enormous amount of dedicated training. I commend you on your commitment! I don’t think I could do it.