Update on the IRONMAN

James and John arrived safe in Florida late Wednesday night. They had a problem checking into their hotel because the hotel so some reason didn't save their reservation. But luckily for them, John had printed out their reservation when he first called so the hotel was able to accomadate them. yay.

On Thursday they had all their regestrations, meetings, and packet pickups. James said it was a long day but very educational.  James found out that there are 3000 athlets and 153 in his age group. 20 of those 153 are not from the US. So-we'll how he does.

If some of you don't know, The IRONMAN is a 2.4 swim in the ocean, 112 mile bike ride and 26.2 mile run. I'm really worried about James over doing it and not listening to your body.He is in such good shape, but i've seen some IRONMAN videos and people litteraly kill themselves cuz they want to finish! I hope he's smart. But in the meeting yesterday for him he said that they said to be smart and not over do it, so if he doesn't listen to me, I hope he listens to the people in charge.

Here are the course maps...

The Bike

The Run

You have to finish every transition in a certain amount of time. Here are the cut off times. If they can't finish in the time given, they cannot finish the race. Swim: 2 hours and 20 minutes, Swim/Bike: 10 hours and 30 minutes (IM Florida ONLY is 10 hours and 15 minutes), Swim/Bike/Run: 17 hours

Today they get to set up their transitions and rest for the day. I think the boys are going to do a little swimming in the ocean to try and get use to the salt water.

Oh! Last night James also said that he thinks we can track his race! YAY! James' bib number is 163.
Johns bib number is 543.

Real Time Athlete Tracking, the core product of Team Ironmanlive. Follow your athletes progress through the course, with split times, pace, transition, and position information. Our goal is to keep you connected to the race, from anywhere around the globe.
At the start of the race you will see a link for the Athlete Tracker under the coverage tab of the event on the home page of Ironman.com. You can also access the coverage by navigating to "Events", then choosing the race you are interested in.


You can also to to ironman.com to get live coverage of everything going on starting tomorrow.

I wish James and John the best of luck!!