Really I probably never went away!
I was cleaning out my old computer files a few days ago and found the original Ironman Wives Column from an old Femme Fitness magazine and realized how much I achieved from writing down what so many of us supporters are going through...cleaning the Lycra, mixing the Replace and feeding the tired grumpy athletes day in and day out to get them to a start (and hopefully a finish)line.
In the next few days I will endevour to re-blog those first few columns to refresh memories of Ironmans past, and although we will be in Taupo on the side line come March I am ever so hopeful that I will be blogging about Ironmans in the future...Walt was trying so hard to be supportive and "family orientated" when he decided against doing IM 2010, but I think we have all realized that IM is what we are about as a family, it is what we thrive on and how we survive as a unit. Don't get me wrong, the tensions mount-the temper soars and at times we all get fed up with it, but at the end of the day we love doing what we do to get Walt(Dad) to that start line and see him become an "Ironman".
The struggles to come to terms with his decision against competing this year have been hard, it is hard to describe the almost lost feeling when you have had such a large goal for so long and no longer have it, And it is quite a hard one to replace....so I think we should just realize that maybe it cant be replaced, maybe once you have done Ironman there is nothing else that can quite compare, and maybe once we all, Walt, the kids and I admit this to ourselves and each other, one of us will once again don the Lycra, spend endless hours on the bike, in the pool and running and again realize that all any of us really want is to be an "IRONMAN!"
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