When the Kona lottery opened a few months ago I entered it thinking what an opportunity IF I were to win a spot. The odds weren't in my favor- 4000+ lottery applicants, 150 domestic spots.
The lottery drawing was Thursday April 15th, 2010 at noon. Here is it Friday April 16th and I have "won" a spot in the 2010 Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. It's 176 days, roughly 4200 hours, 252,000 minutes, and 15200000 seconds until I will be standing on the beach in Hawaii beginning the 2.4 ocen swim portion of the race. I've been planning to do the Boulder 70.3 Ironman in August so I've been training for a few weeks. The holidays and the new year slowed me down from the marathon last October.
I have been calculating and I have 17 hours to complete the race. Within that I have 2 hours and 20 minutes to swim 2.4 miles and from the start of the race I have 10 hours and 30 minutes to have completed the swim and biked 112 miles. Based on my current paces I will finish the race in approximately 15 hours. Better get to training since that is one long time to be swimming, biking, and running.
I've begun training using a Mark Allen program, hoping it will help with the overwhelming feeling I have with the task at hand.
As the training moves along I plan to update the blog and chronicle my journey to the finish of the 2010 Ironman. So, today begins the training for the 2010 Ironman World Championship and since it's Friday it's off to the pool.
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