Part 5 - My IronMan 70.3 journey

Why did I start my triathlon journey with an IronMan 70.3 race? I get that question often with the prefix “Are you crazy!?” Hands down, it’s a reasonable question ;) Swiping through my original triathlon plans that I made in 2018/2019, makes me smile. You can have the perfect plan but life just happens or in this case Covid. In the below posts you’ll see why I selected all the different triathlons always keeping in mind how I’m going to progress.

Happy swiping and reading :)

Haha, what can I say: My plan sounded good, right? Starting with sprint distance triathlons where the swim takes place in a pool, then in a bay and then in the open water. Well, thanks to Covid, none of these triathlons took place. Which also meant that I had over 2 years to train, train more and fall in love with trail running specifically. I ended up progressing so much and consistently in these last few years that a sprint, normal or olympic distance triathlon wasn’t a challenge for me anymore but part of my routine. So I thought to myself: What’s the next challenge: Bingo! Let’s do an IronMan 70.3 distance. And I’ll tell you how that went down last weekend in my next article. Stay tuned, it’s worth a read :)