Ironman Coeur d'Alene

Yesterday was the Ironman competition in Coeur d'Alene. My friend Andrea's brother, Cameron (aka Wham) participated in the race for the first year. This was his year to be an Ironman. Wham trained for a year for this event, and his goal was to simply finish the tri-athlon. The race started at 7:00 am and began with a 2.4 mile swim which took him 1 hour and 10 minutes. Left is Wham coming out of the water.

Next he had to do a 112 mile bike ride which took him about 5 hours and 45 minutes.

After he got done with the bike ride, he had to run 26.2 miles (which is the equivalent of a marathon). That took him about 5 hours. We stood and cheered him on from the sidelines whenever we could for motivation.

He finished with an overall time of 12 hours, 10 minutes, and 48 seconds. Wow, that's quite a feat! It was really amazing watching all of the athletes competing in this. The fastest person finished it in like 8.5 hours!! We were so happy for Wham and him achieving his goal. Here he is crossing the finish line.

Here is a group photo of all of us that came out to cheer him on. We all had t-shirts that read "IRONWHAM ". He said he really appreciated our support and that it helped him push on to finish.