Saturday my brother Kent (L) and his friend Jared (R) competed in the St. George Ironman.
He has trained for months, maybe closer to a year. You start with a 2.4 miles swim, 112 mile bike ride and then a full 26.2 marathon. He had some finishing goals he hoped to achieve and was able to meet them all!
The day started out beautiful and 2 minutes into the race the wind kicked up so badly officials stated if it had been that way prior to the swim, that portion would have been cancelled. Winds were clocked with 20-30 miles per hour with a few gusts up to 40. It was amazing anyone could swim those conditions. They've been called the worst in all 110 Ironmans.
This is the start of the swim
This is the swim finish.
They crossed the finish line together in 13:56:08!
That's amazing he finished. Even more amazing he met his time goals. Good job ironman!
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