"There's this Triathlon thingy...

...going on at the YMCA" my fetching wife says to me as she comes home from the gym the other day. "O, Yeah?" I said, thinking that I could throw that into my training for the sprint Detroit Lakes tri in August. "yes" she says, "I think it is like 2.5 miles swimming, 112 miles biking and a marathon running".

"Ah, honey. that's a Ironman" I reply. I have absolutely no desire to complete an Ironman. I mean that's for the real crazy people, not for the only mildly crazy ones who might actually have a family and a job and soccer coaching and.. well you get the idea. I am perfectly happy competing in Sprints with possibly an occasional Olympic Distance Tri thrown in every once in a while for good measure. Heck she has been a bit paranoid that I might start training for another marathon, thinking I would be unavailable for anything else for at least 18 weeks.

"Yes, but you get to do this over 5 days" She retorts. Now I start thinking. Five days? could this be done? The quick calculation in my head goes directly to the run. Even if I manage to do the swimming and biking it the first three days, I'd still have to run back-to-back Half marathons to finish it off.

"Nah, that doesn't sound any fun. I'm really surprised that they are even doing something like that" and the conversation ends with something like that.

Now, I can't just drop a thing like that and for the rest of the day I am mulling the idea in my head. What If I stretched out the run over a few more of the days? If I trained real hard I might just be able to pull it off. I have to go to the Y tomorrow for my swim so I'll take a look at it myself.

The next day I bike up to the Y for my swim and find a flier for the 'Tri' my fetching wife was referring to and she was 'just a little' off on the time frame. They were calling it the Lazy man's Triathlon, and it wasn't 5 days it was 5 weeks! I had better do that much in 5 weeks! Heck I probably have that much done in the last 5 weeks and that includes taper (way more taper than my program called for) and post race rest (again more than I needed, yes I am lazy, that part of the 'event' I am cut out for). So checking my training log over the last 5 weeks I have 2.6 Miles Swimming, 112.7 Miles Biking, 47.8 Miles Running. Whew! I made it. With my training ramping up now and as long as my motivation doesn't really tank I will make the "Lazy Man's triathlon" when it starts in July without even thinking about it. Not that I will care.

But still an Ironman in 5 days. Hmmm. That is an intriguing idea....