Today, according to the local news, is going to be the first day of the year the temperature will reach 90 or above. That's right, it's going to be 92 degrees by mid-afternoon. Yay, Arizona. The Ironman triathlon is today too, so that was good timing...
God I can't imagine how hard it would be to do a triathlon. I'm pretty sure I would drown a quarter of the way through the initial swimming portion...everyone would be marveling at my impressive "dead man's float" technique. Jealous? The biking wouldn't be too bad, but the chafing is the real challenge there. And then there's the 26.2 mile run. Because a marathon by itself wasn't insane enough, we decided to tack it onto the end of a 2.4 mile swim and 112 mile bike ride! Oh that's ok...you weren't going to use those muscles again anyway, were you? Did these people not hear the story of the battle of Marathon in which a messenger ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens to announce the defeat of the Persians? Did they not hear said messenger DROPPED DEAD from extreme exhaustion upon delivery of the news?? Apparently not. And that guy probably wasn't wearing a wetsuit having just hopped off a bike. Nutty! Have you seen footage of people nearing the finish line at the Ironman in Hawaii? Many of them get to the point they no longerhave the ability to control their bodies. These people literally can't stand anymore, let alone run, so they hobble, wobble, and more often than not, crawl, helplessly across the finish line. It looks so painful and morbidly silly. I can't feel bad for them because, well, they brought it upon themselves. Enjoy your accomplishment while lying in a hospital bed with an IV jammed in your arm in an effort to rehydrate your terribly overworked body! Good work!
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