fat beginner to Ironman in 9 months? (Page 2)

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Go James Bond!!!!

I reread your OP.  You asked if you could complete it.  The only answer is: who knows?  no one can predict the future.  Good luck, stay safe.

Hrm.  To start with we all have aspects to our personality that help us in life and aspects that are counter productive, it is the human condition.  An addiction is an unhealthy way to cope with internal emotional states and drives.  Trading one addiction for another does not actually fix anything.  It replaces a wooden crutch with a metal one.  So what this means for you in triathlon training is that you can do workouts that kick your butt.  You can train for an IM.  But if you go in to hard to fast for an IM you will likely hurt yourself and give up.  You as a person can control, moderate, stear, adjust how your impulses impact your behavior.  So you pick a plan, you follow it and you do a HIM in 9 months and an IM one year later and develope the descipline of recovery as well as of improved health and then generalize that selfdiscipline to other areas of your life.  The bottom line question is, "is it working for you?"  If the answer is no (job problems, relationship problems, health problems, legal problems) then the solution is not to do more of it, but to do something different.  Luck in your journey, you can listen to folks who have been doing this for many years and safely complete your goal or you can do what you want to do when you want to do it and have a big chance of going boom and giving up.  Many, many folks in life have difficulty learning from the knowledge of others.  This trait goes along with having problems with addiction.  It means you are unlikely to listen to what anyone has to say here.  But, if things go wrong, you will know why.  And then learning can occur.  Peace.  

You are looking for the dare that is fine, I give you the dare.

Fist things first if you have not yet been training go out and run 5 miles, ride 35 miles and swim 500yds.  Not in the same day though that is easy, do it in consecutive days that is a bit more of a challange.  If you have been training already then double that.  This will give you something to think about while you are training.

Free Tip:

Pick a couple of shorter races maybe a sprint then oly or oly then 70.3 to fit into your training early in the year.

Good luck,

Oh my goodness, you people take yourselves too seriously.  It is just SBR, not WWIII.  He's not looking to perform brain surgery on himself, it is just SBR. 

FWIW, to the OP, I'm 51 and this year I did my first HIM (and won my AG) after starting training last November after 4 kids and little to no exercise for over 20 years.  It wasn't that hard, really.  I was a little tired on the swim towards the end but came off the bike super fresh - felt like I had not even ridden but by the end of the run my hips were really hurting but my legs felt great.  I was a fish as a kid (70s) and young adult (early 20s) and then got into cycling in the mid 80s but all that stopped the mid 90s.

I'm now training for an IM - in less than 4 weeks.  Why? Who cares?  I've always wanted to since Dave Scott trained in Davis (CA) and back when Hawaii was the only IM in town.  I know I'm ill prepared - I had to take 8 weeks of training off while my son had his lung resected but I'm not looking to reinvent the lightbulb - just some SBR.  Yeah, it is going to be really hard, but what in life worth doing isn't?

on edit, after reading all the responses, I see the OP has already addressed this, so in the words of Gilda, "never mind." 

Remember.  Everybody is different.

Yes, it is SBR, BUT, the point is, attempting a race of 140.6 miles is nothing to sneeze at and not to be taken lightly, either.

The O.P. asked "Anybody think I can complete the Coeur dÁlene Ironman on June 24th, 2012?", and given the information that he provided, I don't think anybody would have seriously consider answering that with a "Yes".