I AM IRONMAN (NOT!)

Recently my spin teacher disappeared for a month.  I knew that he was training for some triathlon but couldn't understand why that would impact teaching our class.  Then someone said he was training for the IRONMAN.  Aside from the Robert Downy Jr. film, I needed some more information. After some research I discovered that the Ironman event is a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride and a FULL MARATHON RUN!  I now put these Ironman triathletes in the same catagory as people who want to climb Mount Everest... CRAZY!

When the Ironman was finished, our gym put a sign up acknowledging his achievement and praising him for his amazing time, which was somewhere in the neighborhood of TEN AND A HALF HOURS!!!  Okay, let me go on record to say that if I had 10 and a half hours of unbroken, uninterrupted time, I would probably not push my body to its very limits of endurance.  Here are some of the things I would do with that kind of time:

Read a book from cover to cover

Watch all three Lord of the Rings films back to back

Go to the movies and see 4 different movies

Sleep

Two words:  SPA DAY

Remove the wallpaper from my bathroom

Spend the time with 3 or 4 close friends laughing my ass off

To each his own.  I have the highest admiration for someone who can do what I cannot.  Now cue Ozzy Osborne:  "...I AM IRONMAN..."