Becoming an Ironman

So this week is a large week of training for me. I haven't wrote in a while, because simply I haven't had much on my mind. I have just been focusing on training and completing the workouts given to me. However yesterday while running on a 10.5 mile run and thinking about the workouts I have done so far and the ones ahead, I had an epiphany. I really am becoming an Ironman. I mean right now my easy workouts are between 2700 - 3000m in the pool, a 40 - 50 mile bike ride, and anywhere between 7 - 13 mile runs. These are easy to me and I feel fine after doing them. That is what is interesting is that I have built up such a base in training that I can go and do these workouts before and after work, and not skip a beat. I do them day after day too. In the past I remember a good afterwork bike ride would 25 miles. Now I comfortably will ride 40+ after work. Same with running, when I used to do 3 miles as a run, now its 7 - 13 miles. I know it's only a matter of time before I am saying that 70 - 80 mile rides are a walk in the park as well as 15 - 18 mile runs. It is truly amazing what the human body can do. 

This weekend I have a hard workout. 3 hours of riding, with an hour of hill repeats followed by 2 hours of running. I am not gonna lie. I am a little intimidated by this workout. It might be as hard or harder than a Half Ironman. Next weekend, 4 hours of riding with over an hour of hill repeats and 2.5 hours of running. This WILL be the hardest workout I have ever done. That is the point of the training though. To push myself to new extremes, so that I can get comfortable with these 6.5 - 8 hour workouts. We shall see how this weekend and next week goes. Other than that, I feel if I get thru these workouts this weekend and next, that I am really going to be ready for IM Wisconsin and I still have some 113 days to go too! These workouts will be a big confidence booster for me.