Iron Man!!!!

Ok so I have been waiting to do this post because we have WAY better pictures then I took, but I haven't been able to get them yet so for now we'll just use what I've got.

The Iron man so Amazing!!!! it was so fun to be on the side lines and watch as these crazy motivated people did something incredible!!!!!
The swim was my favorite part to watch. there were 2000 people participating and they all started at once. They had the Iron Man song blasting in the background and the buzzer went off for everyone to start.) It was so cool, I totally started to cry.
all of these swimmers look alike but we were so lucky we spotted Ryan, his dad, and Brother right before they ran in. (picture to be shown later.)

in the water everyone looked like a bunch of perona's, it was crazy!
Ryan and Jeff were so close in the swim. (Jeff is pictured below) they were seconds apart. they were both around 1 hour and 9 minutes. I was so bummed we saw Jeff first and so we were screaming and jumping and I guess we totally missed Ryan in all of the excitment. they were a lot faster then we expected so we didn't even realize we had missed him until someone called us and let us know. Here is Jeff coming out of the swim getting ready for the Bike.

this spot was crazy, we saw them pull in at least 10 swimmers who cramped up and couldn't complete the race. then there were several more who didn't finish the swim in time (2 hours) so they were disqualified from the race. I can't imagine how frustrating that would be to do all of that training and not get to do the whole race. you also have to finish the bike by 5:30 and the run by midnight, or no metal no glory no Iron Mann!

Here's where the picture portion is crappy. I didn't take anymore because I was too excited to cheer and I knew there were better cameras on board, so soon enough I'll add the others. I have no pictures of the bike or run.

they did great thought. we got to see them a ton in both events. Ryan's bike was 6 1/2 hours for 112 miles.
His Marathon was 4 hours and 38 Minutes. let the record show that is almost my marathon time. (minus of coarse the 114 miles he did before that)
So his total time for the Iron man was 12:31:09!!!!! He did great.
I loved watching him finish, it was so cool and emotional. just to know that you did something you never thought was possible. (I was trying to live through him at that moment)



Ryan's dad and brother did amazing. this was there second Iron Man and they both beat there last times by close to an hour. Jeff's time was 11:18 (holy cow) and Deans was 12:45 (FYI he's in his late 50's) It's so fun to see there close relationship and watch them achieve there life long dreams together.


Here's my Awesome poster to cheer them on. (side note: when we got home Bailee saw it and was confused as to why I had a poster of Dad sleep walking???? so weird.) I've got mad skills!!!

a few random facts,..... there were people from over 47 states and over 60 countries that competed in this Iron Man.

over 300 people did not complete the race.

one of the bikers crashed and got a broken collar bone, they taped him up and he walked the Marathon and still completed the race.





so Ryan is already ready to plan his next Iron Man so he can beat his time. But I think that's going a few years down the road! (RIGHT HONEY!!!!!)