We FINISHED the bike today! Both of us can barely believe it.

Catch Up

• Logistics
• Day 1
• Day 2
• Day 3
• Day 4

Progress

• Swim: no swim today
• Bike: 13.44 miles / 1:10:45
• Run: 4.07 miles / 41:00

Totals

• Swim: 2.4 miles / 1:48:18 DONE
• Bike: 112.46 miles / 8:50:04 DONE
• Run: 22.25 miles / 3:32:53

Run

I felt pretty good on the run, but Rob struggled a bit with lead-legs. We live in the foothills, so no matter which direction you head, you have steep and/or gradual hills to content with. We knocked out 4 miles while watching the sunrise and enjoying the non-rainy morning.

Transition 1

About 5 minutes and we were out on the bikes.

Bike

It was a slow, exhausted ride. The loop we chose starts with about 3-miles of very steep uphills and we were both climbing in our lowest gear almost ride away. Lots of fatigue in our legs.

The sun actually made an appearance today, so it made for a pretty ride and we finished the bike! Lots of high-fiving took place.

Victories

Finishing the bike! When this whole thing started, I really didn’t think it was going to happen. Sure, it was a super slow time overall, but it doesn’t matter. The whole point was to do this as a challenge, and I would say we did pretty darn well for ourselves.

I have to say, again, I don’t know how Ironmen and women do this. The training alone is exhausting and then they do incredible miles on race day. I am in awe.

Grumbles

Nothing really. We just have 4 miles to knock out tomorrow morning and we are D-O-N-E!

RQ:

Brooke Selb

I’m Brooke Selb, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach specializing in helping busy moms and moms to be to easily juggle mom life with family friendly recipes, and easy exercise routines to help you achieve your fitness goals that fit in with your already busy life with sound nutritional advice.