Justin Discovered

This is the second part of my thoughts about completing an Ironman. You can read this on it's own, but I have my initial thoughts before talking and thinking it through a bit longer in the first part. Here it is: There are a lot of fantastic responses here. I've been mulling over this since I wrote this and then some more after reading the responses. This ended up being quite long, it's really for me, but perhaps it will help others step back and recognise what they've achieved also. Firstly, something that I didn't make clear initially; I had a great time doing the training and the event, I have zero regrets. I also just got my event photos and I was clearly pretty stoked to get across the line. On to my thoughts after a bit more introspection. I've done two marathons and two 70.3s before this and they were all tough and felt like hard work to get to the end. Obviously, my pace was quicker in those, but it wasn't a huge amount quicker. So it can't be ...

I posted this on a Triathlon Facebook Group I'm a part of, it ended up being quite long and I think the immediate post-race thoughts and then the more considered thoughts may be of interest to others. This is the first part: So I just finished my first Ironman on the weekend and it doesn't feel like much of a big deal. Going into it my goal was simply to finish. I had a rough idea of how long it should take me, but that was mainly just so my cheer squad knew when they should expect to see me, I'd made a point of not shooting for a specific time. In the end, my swim was right on my prediction, bike was a little faster and run was a little slower so overall I came in at a little over 14hrs which was where I expected to be. I'd been told to expect to feel like quitting etc. during the run and I'd have highs and lows. I didn't feel that way, I really didn't have any mental challenges or physical ones besides feeling a little light headed and like I was goin...