This last weekend we crossed the five month mark until race day. Yep... that doesn’t feel nearly long enough to get myself ready. I had a great weekend of workouts - 4:00 hour bike/run on Saturday, good swim and run on Sunday (neither were too intense since it was “Rest and Test” week). But the five months will no doubt fly by at a rate that my body isn’t used to evolving.

I trust that I will be ready in five months. I know the work that lays before me, and I know that I will do it. And I know that my coach has put together a plan that will get me to the finish line. But I am tired after four hours of working out. How I am going to feel after four-times that length. Yes, I am expecting to take 16+ hours to finish my Ironman. Such is the plight of the athletically ungifted as they try and complete an Ironman after a heart transplant.

But a finisher is a finisher, and I won’t get a smaller medal than the people who finish six hours ahead of me. And finishing is really all I care about.