best IRONMAN blog ever

hello everybody!
HI! i want to use this blog as a personal motivation for my first ironman in july next year in roth/germany. and as well this could/should perhaps be a motivation for everybody who wants to finish an ironman in his/her life without having much time for excessive training. (another short finisher story)

i found no information on the www about a personal story of an ordinary person having children, both parents having full-time jobs who tries to finish an ironman. hence i think this could be a nice blog on problems during training, amount of training, time-management and other more general information (link). i really thing finishing an ironman is a nice dream to fulfill.

all informations put here might be quite private - but my profile will not lead to any exact informations about where i'm living or what my real name is. everything i will tell about my person are the following facts:
i'm 27 years old, having tree children (soon it will be four) in the age of 1, 3, 4 and i'm living in germany.
my sports background is:
a few weeks of training (~2-3h per week) twice a year to finish two MTB-Marathons south of germany
100km and 2,5km up in 6:45h
my work is:
actually i'm doing my phd and will finish with that in mid of 2009.

finishing an ironman is a dream since nearly four years. i thought about doing such a crazy event every few months but not knowing or planning when to start exactly. with the birth of my sons during my years at the university i did not really had lots of time for sports - in general only the daily trips to the kindergarden and university of only four km each day. running was not more than once a month in average and swimming was very rare too - even worse than running. SO, best qualifications to finish an ironman!!! ;) but nevertheless, I WILL FINISH!

two weeks ago i heard of a man who had a bet with his boss an friends: all of them put 23000Euro together believing that he will not finish IRONMAN GERMANY in frankfurt below 12h. He had nine months of training. He accepted the bed, worked hard and...................finished with 11:56! and he got 23000euro. :)

so i also thought about singing in for the ROTH-CHALLENGE 2008 as this was again a very actual topic with both big german ironman in Frankfurt and Roth at this time. i signed not because of having lots of time at the moment, but believing that my free time (with work and huge amount of children :) ) will not increase withing the next ten years. hence, it doesn't matter if i start now or in for example six or seven years as available time for training is the same now and in future. but there's one advantage of doing it exactly as early as possible: i'm younger in 2008 than in 2018. that's a fact! :)

yes, now i signed in and i think about this ironman every day. everything smells and smecks of ironman. and i like that, it is such a great motivation hanging around in my brain the whole day. and using free time in the evening not for hanging around but for sports is even very very satisfying.

withing the next months i will put here my problems or success during training and how to find as much time as possible for training with having only a little.

--bat2ahalf-oman