I've entered!

I've just clicked the 'Enter Here' button at www.ironman.co.nz to join about 1300 rubber clad, wannabe Iron(wo)men on March 6 2010. Why? it's not my first time, it'll be number four. And I remember crawling, groveling up the airport hill saying to my wife 'never again, this hurts sooooo much' . But you forget - maybe it's like childbirth for men. There's a hormone women excrete during childbirth that helps them forget the pain so they do it again - maybe Ironmen have one too.

What's more is that I've given myself 73 days to be fit, strong, healthy and ready to do it. I know, it's not much and I'm getting some strange looks from the guys I've trained with who have been at it for 10 months or more.

So this time, it's part training, part experiment. I want/need to stay sane, pleasant, husbandly attentive to my wife and have energy to be a 'present' Dad to my 5 children. (yes, all to the same Mum!). So I'm going to hunt down the most efficient training, the best products that'll give me an edge and make up for the lack of time I have to train and keep me and more importantly, my wife, sane.

I've already found 2 things to help. I;m going to try them out over the next few days and let you know how they go. Both are about going faster, go easier!

Off on the bike now....