"Half a Day!"

...or twelve hours
...or 720 minutes
...or 43,200 seconds

So there you have it. The goal, the plan, the hope, the wish, and the dream. Twelve hours is what I have in mind and it should look something like this. Swim complete and on my bike within 1 1/2 hours(should be do-able). Bike complete and out running within 8 hours( again probably do-able) and then a 4 hour marathon (do-able now becomes a very strong word) I actually hope that maybe I'll be about 15 mins ahead of things by the time I start the run allowing me to run 6 min kms and still make my overall goal time. Last year only 291 of the 2200 participants finished the marathon in under 4 hours!! That scares me quite a lot especially since my goal times in the other 2 disciplines would put me right in the middle somewhere. I guess we'll see what I'm made of eh?

So now that I've set myself up for failure in front of the entire world I know that the next 10 weeks will determine everything. I need to do everything almost perfect and work very, very hard. I do believe that even the marathon part is do-able if I just push things to the limit. No excuses, no shortened workouts and no mistakes in nutrition or technical areas. Please encourage me.

But don't be disappointed for me if I don't make it. I'm not going to be. And I may even modify my plan after the Half Ironman which is now less than 5 weeks away

I wish to dedicate day to Camilo Ramirez who last year finished in exactly 12:00:00!

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."---Bernard Edmonds

...and I loved this one...

“A goal is a dream with a deadline."---Napoleon Hill

love
peter