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TELL US YOUR STORY
Do you have a quote, another anecdote about competing at the IRONMAN Lanzarote that would uplift inspire or entertain other triathletes? Do you have a favourite song you would like to hear at the race? If so we would love to invite you to become a part of Ironman Lanzarote.
We are looking for quotes or true stories about swimming, cycling and running to be shared with all of Ironman Lanzarote participants.
Please submit your quote or story whether original or one of your favourites collected over the years from piles of triathlon magazines.
Based on content and length, selected entries will be posted at the Athletes Lounge, Start and Finish area, website, … (please let us know if you'd prefer not to have your name printed with your entry) You can also add a picture.
We appreciate your contribution and we hope you'll be as inspired by the stories, of others as they will be by yours.
Please e-mail us at stories@ironmanlanzarote.com
Thank you for your participantion in Ironman Lanzarote.
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Ironman Experience
In this section of the web page, Ironman finishers talk about their experiences during the Lanzarote Ironman.
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Read all about my race adventure on my blog at www.jimaifandis.com
"Canary Capers - Ironman Lanzarote 2006" is 17 pages of prose, poetry and pictures, by Jim Aifandis
It was a hard day at the office in Lanzarote as I battled the wind, lava fields and volcanos. Find out all about the Hotmix Highway, Coarse Concourse and the dreaded Marble Motorway. And did I find the canary I was searching for?
Photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/9270482@N02/sets/72157604078603531/ |
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by French-speaking Swiss Triathlete Pascal Fumeaux
Samedi matin 19 mai, 0400, le réveil sonne.
Ca y est, le jour J est arrivé. Après 6 mois de préparation, des hauts et des bas, enfin nous y voilà. Pour le moment le stress n’est pas encore trop présent. Dès le saut du lit, je |
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Am Dienstag vor dem Ironman flogen wir nach Lanzarote. Unser Aparthotel Costa Mar lag knapp 3km ausserhalb des Zentrums von Puerto del Carmen direkt an der Laufstrecke und Stand (Playa los Pocillos). Es windete stark
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Searching for my guardian angel
This is one of these stories that shows how this sport and its people enjoy an environment and “health” many others would love to have. The 2006 edition was the second time I came for the Ironman with the only intention to enjoy and try to improve my previous record. During the whole competition I didn’t have any reference concerning time or speed to avoid the related pressure which could have kept me from my principal goal … enjoying.
But when I passed Km 21 of the marathon, I was curious enough to gaze at the “clock”. Oh my God. I have run a time that I have never expected at all. From then on, I started to hurry and of course, at km 30, unbearable pain in my legs. The moment when I was about to become weak and started to surrender to the pain, another participant with less loops in his legs appeared from behind, lowered his speed to stay at my side and started to encourage me in an English, surely better than mine. I reacted to this action with a mixture of unbelieving and endless suffering and… why not, getting upset.
However, the guy didn’t give up and kept on encouraging me. Come on! Keep going! There’s no pain! It’s in your mind! You can go to Hawaii! He even stopped with me at the aid station to avoid my abandonment.
My god, this guy is crazy…but I don’t want him to leave me alone, I thought .
In the end, he accompanied me to my finish line and then went back to finalize his own marathon. The only thing I know about this man is that his running clothes were blue (sky blue?); that he was not crazy at all and helped a modest sportsman to complete one of his challenges and dream for a while of getting to Hawaii. Imagine a world where people would act like this in their daily life.
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Ironman Lovestory...
Beginning 2006 I took 2 decisions :
1. I wanted to marry my girlfriend
2. I wanted to finnish in the Ironman of Lanzarote
While training in the dark winter months of 2006, I asked myself where, when and how I would ask my girlfriend to marry. I had the change in March during the marathon in Rome, or during the training camp in April in Andalousia or during the Ironman Lanzarote. The choice was fastly made.
At the day of the race I was not only thinking about the suffering, but also that at the end of the day, when I finnished, I would ask her for marriage.
And if I would not finnish? Nope, this idea was excluded.
During the entire race, I was thinking from time to time how she would react and what she would say.
I was havely suffering during the marathon because of stomach problems. But every lap I saw my beauty. And when I had to start my last lap, I knew that soon I would ask her for marriage.
After 13h21min37sec the wunderful torture of Lanzarote was finnished. I crossed the finnish line with my girlfriend, who was waiting whole the day for me. I crossed the line, got the medal and took the last of my energy to kneel. No cramps, and only the words : do you marry me?
She said yes. I though that she first said yes because she felt compassion with my suffering, but the days after she keps saying yes, yes, yes.
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“She said yes at the finish line”
After having an unlucky start at the IronMan in Lanzarote 2005, where I had to quit the race after 10km in the marathon, I came back to Lanzarote the following year to succeed over the exhaustion, cramps and all the suffering and to complete the IronMan. I crossed the finish line after 12h25'07". When I started my last lap, I shouted to my girlfriend Ines to look out for me when I was about to finish. She came on the running course and joined me for the last 10 meters. As we crossed the finish line together, I asked her to marry me but because of the pain in my muscles I couldn't get down on my knees. Nevertheless, she said yes and we are going to marry in September and spend our honeymoon in …. Lanzarote ;)
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Lanzarote Love story....
My reason to compete in Ironman Lanzarote was fundamentally that the race
scared the hell out of me. I like to challenge myself- I had completed
Ironman Oz 2004 and New Zealand 2005 and did the swim and bike in Ironman
Zurich in 2005. I enjoyed the european race immensely. |
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Before I had the "brilliant" idea of participating at an Ironman, I was a spectator in France-Geradmer (2004) where friends of me participated. I can tell you that I never felt such emotions at the start of any triathlon a participated. And the biggest joke off al, I was only watching 1000 man getting started for their dream. I imagined what a rush it must be, standing there between these athletes. |
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The Lanzarote!
I had a great swim, a lousy bike and a decent run but at the end of the day, I finished in 17 hrs, 18 minutes, 50 seconds
Thank you for your great support and energy... I could have not done it with out you!
Pre-race...
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Sunday, June 04 2006, Wilhelm Franc wrote:
It was down from Mirador del Rio when at 90km/h my backtire blew up.
Chances are one to a million to come into such a situation…like in Lotto – belive me I’d like more to have this luck :-)
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"Simply stated, the Lanzarote Ironman (IM) race is a “class act” and totally caters to the athlete. From registration months before the race to getting the athlete to the hotel at midnight after the race, every organizational and support detail assures a quality race."
Bob Byard
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“I took up Triathlons just to learn how to swim, after a near drowning accident in the same Canary Islands some years back. So it was fitting that I returned to the Canaries two and a half years after I first started to learn to swim, to finally say goodbye to those haunting demons of those treacherous seas, now a swimmer, but not just yet an Ironman." |
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Eduardo Rodríguez Herrera
(Mentally handicapped athlete from Guatemala)
I am in Lanzarote to do my second Ironman. I have a commitment that it is very, very big and “I must do it” because many people believe in me, as my daddy says in his faxes I know that they believe in me because I received a fax from the federation from Guatemala. |
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Rebecca Taylor, age grouper in the Lanzarote Ironman 2001 talks about her experience in what's considered to be "The Toughest Ironman in the World". She wrote an article describing her experience starting from the end. The moment she crossed the finish line. |
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Stephen Blum Ironman Lanzarote Finisher 22 May 1999 |
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Lena Wahlqvist Ironman Lanzarote Champion 1999 & 2000 |
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