How to complete an IronMan

How to complete an IronMan?

An IronMan is one of the hardest competitions. Be one of them it's really hard. It is necessary to complete a long distance triathlon: 3.8 km swim, 180km bike and 42.2 run in a time less than 15 hours.

I want to give you some advices which you can use it for every triathlon competition:

1. The training has to be progressive. It's not good to train really hard the first week and then get leisured for two months. It's important to know yourself step by step.

2. Never do your best in a train. You need energy for the next day.

3. If some part of your body hurts, stop it. This is the most common problem.

4. Almost never train running and cycling the same day.

5. Swimming fits with all the sports. You can swim and run or swim and cycle. It is really difficult to get injured swimming.

6. Take care with long running distances. Don't do too much. It is an attack against your knees.

7. Take the costume of cycling every weekend is necessary. Always enjoy it, if you don’t, it could be awful.

8. Eat a lot of carbohydrates. It is the best way to recover energy.

9. Going out at nights... Personally I think is good to enjoy some days with the friends. To go out helps to keep going. However, tabacco, lots of alcohol, weed... you are out.

 

With these steps you can achieve every kind of triathlon.

 

 

Salud and miles.

Boxing Training

 

Boxing trainning

 

 

 

Watch closely your oponent, always at his eyes.

Learn what he knows, analazy how he reacts.

When you know how is he, then you can start fighting.

Calm, head and courgae is the three words that you need.

Falling and getting up is the only way to beat everybody.

Never back down, and always go as a lion.

Looking at your opponent, speaking with the eyes.

Tellinh him that nobody can't stop you.

Interview to Iduardos

This is an interview to the best tryciclist in Spain. Nobody knows this sport, that’s why he is so rude. However, it is very funny too.

Iduardos Pelemax.

 

 

- Good morning Iduardos, may I do some questions to you?

I’m in Spain, here we are not at. I think you must read a little more for your ignorance.

-Whatever you say. May I?

Go ahead, as faster as possible.

- Ok, thanks. How it is possible be the best tryciclist in Spain?

Sincerely, because I am the best, I’m like Lebron James in basket, Messi in football, Nadal in tennis, Contador as a cyclist, phelps as a swimmer and bolt as a runner. I don’t want to rude, but I born like this, what else I can do?

- Do you think that your mind was important to achieve those things?

Mind? Obviously is important. I have to train every day, so I need a perfect head to keep going. But my incredible legs are important too.

- How many "firts medals" do you have in your home?

I don’t know, I just through them away, I’ve got too many.

-Which has been your best experience?

Beating my competitors and laughing at them afterwards

-Which has been you worst experience?

This useful interview

 

-Thanks Iduardos. I suppose you earn the same money as lebron, Messi…

 

F…k you dude.

5 similar blogs

Blog 1: MURTHA'S TRIATHLON BLOG

This blog is about the author own experiences in triathlon competitions. He also explains how he had to fight to get to the final line.

He tries to encourage the people to do sports. That’s what I’m trying to do with my blog: motivate the people.

 

 

Blog 2: http://amateurtrigirl.blogspot.com/

I read the first entries of this blog and it reminds me a lot to mine. In some of her competitions this girl wasn’t enough prepared and he had to fight with her mind to complete her challenges. I had to do the same thing when I did my first IronMan. I had to fight with my mind to get it.

Blog 3: http://gregsclimbingblog.blogspot.com/

This blog is really god. Climbing is one of the sports which explain better the fact of never get down. Many times there is no apparently solution, no rock to grip it. However, if we try one and another time at last we are going to have a solution for  the problem.

 

 

Blog 4: http://www.marathontraining.us/

This blog shows how to get ready for a marathon. I’m trying to do the same but in all the sports. Be mentally ready for any competition, for any sport.

 

Blog 5: http://www.trifuel.com/

How to end an Ironman, how to be ready mentally for a triathlon, how to handle a 4km swimming race… This blog explains how to be prepared for any competition.

8 Images

Jorge Tarrago's Eye

 

This is my eye after swim 2.5 km, that’s why the expression of it shows that I am too tired. It is not completely open. The eye is looking up; I want to reach the top. Never look down, always as up as your eyes permit. It also express respect, I know perfectly that it is going to be a hard way to get where I’m looking.

Above my eye there is a swim glasses. I have the glasses in this position before any competition. I want to see perfectly what is in front of me and at the same time being ready to start.

 

Cheers

 

The beer is a perfect recovery drink. Is not a joke or an irony, it’s totally true; his components make the beer one of the best muscles recovery.

That’s not all, drink a beer with the friends after a competition helps to disconnect of the hard trainings.

When I go through Spain by bike (120 km every day), we drunk a jar of beer every day. It was perfect, the best part of the travel.

 



Where is the limit hat

 

This is not a usual cap. It is a runner one. The hat has a whole to let the transpiration of the head, avoiding to for the insolations.

It is red. That color express anger. Necessary for complete any competition.

The sentence on the front part of the cap is: Where is the limit? We always have a limit to reach, it seems to be impossible, logically, is our limit. However when we get closely to it, we realize that our limit could be higher. That’s why we don’t know where is our limit, we know where is not.

Where is the limit book

 

This book is an inspiriting book written by an economist and triathlete. Just like me, that’s why I choose that book.

The title is “where is the limit” and it explains that we can do all we want.

Jorge Tarrago's Laptop

The computer is really important for me, is where I write all my experiences and my train schedules.

Near from the computer is a key to fix the bike and a jar of water. Those things are right there because when I come to my home after train I leave the jar of water and the key near from my computer.

Sleep bag

 

 

 

I love the mountain, that’s why many times I have had to sleep in a sleep bag. I choose that kind of bed because it fits with me. Sleeping here I may be uncomfortable. However when I get up and I see all the mountains around me, I see that it worth slept like this.

Energy tree

 

The best part of a train is when I rest under a tree recovering energy. That’s why I choose a tree with kind of energy flowing around the tree. The spectacular landscape helps to recover from the hard training.

Lance Amstrong Poster

 

This is one of my favorite quotes. It’s from Lance Amstrong, one of the best sportiest that have ever been, thought there are people that says that he is a cheat.

After won 7 France tours (probably the hardest competition in the world) he said that: “Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, even a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. However, if I quit, it last forever”. This sentence inspire me to try what I do hard.

 

Boston marathon

4:09:43, a time as good as the first classified. After those four hours are a daily sacrifice, a constant effort ... with calm, with head and especially an incredible courage. The courage to stand up one day and say: "I will run a marathon." The courage of getting up every morning one hour earlier. The bravery to hear from all voices, the one which speaks weaker, the one that says: "You can".

Something happened, preventing them from crossing the finish line just 10 steps from his deserved challenge ... An explosion that leaves many injured athletes and cause three deaths 

 

This terrible tragedy is so desperate for us. It appears a lot of questions, the questions that we avoid every day. Why? What are they doing wrong? Why is there so much hatred?

I don’t know. I have no idea. I’m not writing to give the solution, I wish I could. I want to support those runners who were there, fighting for a dream. Those who have overcame through thousands of small struggles to get to that point. Probably many of them will decide to throw away the trainers, will have phobia to compete any competition. They won’t hear from sports challenges. What lived, what they saw and what they felt are important reasons for quitting.

Many will fall; hit by the discouragement of seeing this situation ... don’t do it. Run! Today, tomorrow and the rest of your lives, run. Running more than ever, if you were doing 10 miles every day, now do 15. Show them! You are not going to quit.

Whatever the purpose of the twisted mind that placed the explosives, he has failed. All he has done is that we are going to get up from the couch. Go out into the street to run, offering kilometers for a cause. Because we want to prove something ... We are not afraid. WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP.

 

 

Beyond the competition

Beyond the competition

Athletics, not just for winning championships, some have gotten much more, I want to writte about the most incredible anecdotes in the sports life.

Jesse Owens challenge the most powerfull general ever been, Adolf Hitler.We go back to Nazi Germany. Specifically to 1936, where the Olympic Games were held in Garmisch-Partenkichen and Berlin. In order to implement the Nazi aesthetic, undertook an elaborate propaganda program to show the greatness of German power. To disappeared the violence against the Jewish community. The wolf wanted to dress like a lamb ... It is said that Hitler also wanted to show the truth to the world of his theories of Aryan racial superiority

It is true that Germany managed to collect more medals than other countries, 33 in particular. But Hitler did not expect somebody like Jesse Owens.

Jesse Owens was an African American athlete who won four gold medals (until 1984 nobody achieved many medals): 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, long jump and relay.

Hitler was humiliated and refused to shake hands with the African American athlete. Jesse Owens managed to remove Hitler theories with sporting merit.

This is not the only case that sports can make incredible things. The legend of Pheidippides Marathon who prevent thousands of wives and child’s death.

In the battle of the plains of Marathon, the army of the city of Athens was fighting hard. The enemy swore that if they won they would go to Athens to loot houses, raping women and torturing children. Thus, women were waiting to see if Athens had won the battle or not. If they didn’t appear two days later, their wives had to take of their own lives and their child’s live. Unfortunatel, although they won the battle, the Athenian general Miliciades couldn’t send the message to the city, so he sent Pheidippides, the best athlete.

The story goes that after a full day of battle, he crossed the plain of Marathon on time...

But upon arrival, he fell to the ground losing his live.

It is always the case of the survivor, amazing what Silvia Marcela Larrain. With 55 years, she went sailing to the land of fire to bring a sea plaque in honor of a lieutenant.

By the way her guardian angel fell asleep and let the boat sink 20 km from San Clemente.

Between the cold in his bones, he tormented despair head and tore her skin crabs, it was very difficult. She survived in open waters swimming for 12 hours. Larrain can tell you first hand that the sea is miraculous.