Coeur d'Alene!

Coeur d'Alene is the next destination of things to do.  The date that I will be going is June 24th 2013.  The goal that I have now had for about a year is to do an Ironman.  It all came when i was watching one of the three channels that I got from the antennas on my tv last summer.  The world Ironman Championships was being televised and while i should have been studying or something else I couldn't stop watching.  I don't think I blinked during the whole show.  By the end I was hooked.  This happens a lot for me.  I'll see something and decide i want to do that for the rest of my life.  I remember as a kid watching Driven,  a movie about nascar racing, after watching that I wanted to be a nascar driver even though I never even liked NASCAR before.  The same thing happened while watching the World Series.  I always thought that baseball was boring but after watching the series i wanted to be a major league pitcher.  (this would've probably ended terribly if i pursued such a career because of the fact that I'm terrified of getting hit in the face by a baseball.)  But for some reason after not doing anything about completing an Ironman one year after watching the event, this dream has stuck with me.  So since it has withstood the Tanner's bucket of ADD goals that get forgotten I have decided to do something about it.  I have researched for the last few months about the best way of going about this without dying and it looks like the first step was reading.  I bought a book by Matt Fitzgerald that helps design a proper training schedule. Since the actually ironman is about a year a way and the book designs a 6 month training plan for that distance, i decided to actually get in shape first so i don't die.  I'm doing that by using the same book and training for a sprint and then an olympic distance triathalon.  I've already started and it is going well.  (PS you might have noticed that while reading through this entry and there were many grammatical errors and nonsense sentences.  That is my style of writing. I hate editing my own writing.  I turn in papers this way and pass so I'm fine with it.

Coeur d'Alene

This is what i watched