Ultimate Dilema
han382
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Well, actually I know what I need to do, but what are the chances!!!
I decided to do an IM after Coneheads Long Distance course earlier this year-and signed up for IM Austria on 4th July next year. It's all paid for and I'm well into my base training (buttocks still recovering from a 100mile bike ride on Sunday). My wife and I found out yesterday that she'spregnant-and after seeing the doc today (yes-you know what's coming.......) she's due on 4th July!!
Ecstatic on one side-but gutted on another. Any ideas on what I can do?-I want to do an M dot next year, but clearly am not going to be away from home at the end of June or early July!
Help!?!?!?!
p.s-I don't think the "I was there for the birth of our first child-so one out of 2 isn't bad" would work!
I decided to do an IM after Coneheads Long Distance course earlier this year-and signed up for IM Austria on 4th July next year. It's all paid for and I'm well into my base training (buttocks still recovering from a 100mile bike ride on Sunday). My wife and I found out yesterday that she'spregnant-and after seeing the doc today (yes-you know what's coming.......) she's due on 4th July!!
Ecstatic on one side-but gutted on another. Any ideas on what I can do?-I want to do an M dot next year, but clearly am not going to be away from home at the end of June or early July!
Help!?!?!?!
p.s-I don't think the "I was there for the birth of our first child-so one out of 2 isn't bad" would work!
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Otherwise, knowing the time restraints of having little ones (and a tired, hormonal missus!), bin your Ironman dreams for 2010.
I am in a similar situation and have canned swim and run for next year. It will be purely TTs, sportives and the odd road race.
I'd be careful - you will not want to miss the birth of your son or daughter.
Cancel it - do a 70.3 instead and congratulations.
Oh well-looks like a season of 70.3 for me!
Thanks for your replies on this thread.
However, it was very different in that it was only 45 minutes from my house and I could get back if I was needed very quickly. I decided to go ahead and he turned up two weeks late.
If it was Austria, I'd have not gone and saved it for another year!
As much as anything, even if you did go, you'd be very unlikely to be relaxed and 'in the zone', as your head would be somewhere else, wondering what was going on!
I'd can it and plan it again for another time. That way, you could have your kids waiting for you at the finish line. Thats exactly what I've done and am doing IMCH next year!
As far as I'm concerned no Ironman badge would be more important than my children.
It's looking good for Austria 2011, and gives me an extra year to get ready for it.
As other triathlets have advised you can always race another time, there are plenty of races, but you already know this dont you!
I am sure you will still be able to a certain amount of training, after all you balance being a husband & dad already.
But the fact that you had to ask what to put first - the birth of your new child or racing a triathlon beggers believe does it not.
Maybe you should read the first post again-the first line pretty much answers your "beggers belief" comment-which I didn't appreciate.
The two best times of my life Finn being born ad doing the Ironman, the only thing that could trump that would be doing an Ironman with him.
If you want to race then race,perhaps your wife wouldn't mind, have you asked her!
I just think that triathlon is not the be all and end all, and yes I do take it serously, but I enjoy it. I am an Ironman 3 times over so I can appreciate how you feel.
If you can race then I hope you enjoy the experience to.