![]() ![]() Sorry - this isn’t a fun recommendation - but you’re going to miss happy hours, late nights at the bar, playing Call of Duty into the early morning hours, and other things too. It’ll be at least a few hours after a morning workout, and will free up your entire evening for dinner, family time, errands, and all of life’s other surprises. Get a workout in before the rest of the family wakes up, before you check your email, and before something can derail your day.Īlong the theme of ‘not interrupting family time’ see if you can get a workout in at lunch. Nobody bothers you before 6 am, so learn to like getting up early. You’re going to have to squeeze time out of places you didn’t know existed - but there are a few easy places to start: I dove in head first and started to research and plan around three main categories: My 0 to Ironman journey really began right after hitting ‘submit’ on that registration form. Show me Ironman races near me next yearĪs fate (rather, blind luck) would have it, my hometown Ironman, Ironman Maryland, existed 337 days away from this string of Google searches.Can you go from 0 to Ironman in a year?.How long does it take to train for an Ironman?.I started doing what any rational person would do. I became obsessed with the idea of tackling something that massive.Ī 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and a marathon in 1 day became a “if I can do that, then I can do anything” mantra in my own mind.Īt the time, I’d never run further than 5 miles, not swam laps in ~20 years (that’s being generous), and at the time, didn’t own a bike. It wasn’t long then, until I stumbled upon a friend’s #TBT video on facebook showing him crossing the finish line at Ironman Canada. I also had experienced relative success in many of my previous physical endeavors, so the idea of doing something simple and easy wasn’t appealing either. At the time, I had nothing to train for other than life itself, and no goal, no aspiration to keep me going. In late 2017, right after returning from my honeymoon in Greece, I hit a huge rut in my motivation for physical fitness. Needless to say, an Ironman was FAR from my comfort zone, but that’s what makes it enticing, right?īefore getting into all the nitty gritty, first things first… Why Ironman? ![]() ![]() I’ve been an athlete my entire life, but until just before this journey began, my workouts consisted of ‘less-than-20-minute’ weight lifting sessions and the occasional jog around the park. Not me though, for me, I decided to take a massive challenge head on and go from couch to Ironman in a year (ok, maybe not couch, but pretty close). We’ve all heard the phrase 0-60 to (amongst other things) describe the rate at which we dive head first into something.įor most people, though, “something” isn’t an Ironman Triathlon. ![]()
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