Chasing Ten - Ironman Triathlon Documentary

[Music] the problem is with things like endurance sports is what you deem failure to yourself is completely different as to what others deem failure so I'm gonna get a glass thinner and I want to do 959 if I go there and do 1001 it's a personal best Ironman and everyone's gonna go oh that's amazing me you did my run in ten hours one minute that's great but I'm gonna be massively disappointed [Music] 959 of Barcelona means nothing to anyone other than me that's it the end [Music] doing something like an Ironman ratifies the whole reason why you train do you know I mean if you just go out and train then I'm kind of a targets driven person I want to know how fast I went I want to know if I'm improving this year and unless you ready never you never know you just go out and ride your bike for five hours well was that better than last time I rode my bike for five hours I don't know so I'm kind of I'm goal driven in order to see how I'm progressing and there's no better way I've seen how you progressing in racing against other people yeah I've done one a couple of years ago down in Weymouth in the UK I was aiming for around 11 hours you've never ever done 11 hours worth of exercise you've got no idea how that's gonna feel that's the difficulty in it really and you know it's gonna hurt and you know it's gonna be mind over matter for a lot of it so yeah from going to just under 11 hours of Weymouth I'm aiming to go just under 10 hours a Barcelona it's quite a big step up really I'm not sure if it's achievable we'll see on race day the swim will be the same I'm hoping to lose about 40 to 45 minutes off my bike time at Barcelona do the same transitions and then I need to run about 10 minutes quicker when you get to your adult life and you get a proper job and it all kind of slips away and I just ended up in the rat race of modern society where you you put on some weight and you're working in a job where you sit down all day and I don't remember the process of going from skinny fit teenager to being like mid-20s overweight looking in the mirror going what happened to me so if you want to turn it around you've got to do something about it and I'm not the sort of person that can just go oh well I got running every day and I'll just get fit I have to sign up for something where I've got an event that I'm aiming for and train towards that event and that's that's what triathlons did for me really was you know you put something in the calendar there's a marker in the calendar there's something to train for you are going to be there at 5 a.m. racking your bike putting a wet suit on and if you haven't put the effort in it's going to be horrible so put the effort in I'm 5050 as if that would ever happen I should be going to bus there again I want to finish in the top 5% or I want to finish in the top 2 percent whereas running a race for a particular time is completely the wrong way to go about it we might be a really hot day it might be really windy it might be really choppy it you actually want to finish in a particular percentage in the field but 10 hours seems to be a bit like a three hour marathon if you know there's runners out there three hour mouthing is always kind of a the golden you know the golden time that people aspire to and I think like a sub 10 hour Ironman is there you know that's kind of like the pinnacle of the amateur triathlete tomorrow I'm gonna do basically a full-on dress rehearsal for Barcelona are calling it a metric Ironman so it's just gonna be two point four kilometer swim instead of a two point four mile swim same game for the bike same a game for the run so total will be one hundred and forty point two kilometers instead of miles and it's literally sixty two percent of an Ironman hoping to do it about six hours to six hours ten you can't do an Ironman in training for an Ironman because you just kill yourself for the next month basically you know you're not gonna you're not gonna improve that way so this is probably as close to like race conditions as I can possibly get without completely killing myself yep you start I'm getting to that point in my life where I might not have many years left of improving my fitness I may as well try as hard as I can now well I've got the body that ill enabled me to do it as hard as I can now God do another thirty eight percent more distance than today Wow be arrested she'll be all right oh I'm hoping that salt sea water and no sweat otherwise on you to drink more hiiii you I really bad stomach pains I went to see the doctor in the morning and he had a bit of a prod around and I said well get you booked in with a surgeon just have a chat in a couple of hours time so I straight down to the hospital and the surgeon saw me straightaway and had a prod around and said yep we've got a slowing theatre in like three hours we'll whip your appendix out so originally I was told it'd be about a 45-minute procedure just keyhole surgery and then I'd probably be able to go home the next day but yeah I had some complications I woke up about four and a half hours later and had a stomach drain in and they'd had to turn the operation into a normal operation rather than a keyhole one and my appendix had already ruptured by the time they got in there so so this is my current traffic on training I'd say the corridor is probably 150 meters and if I can walk from one end to the other than that's great at the time you think about all the negatives you know I mean you're lying in a hospital bed thinking ah well that's it in six weeks time off star lightly training again in you know three months time I'll be back on to you know a proper training program and by then I won't have very long to go to Barcelona so mentally is devastating so hmm here we are home again officially an outpatient we can get rid of this lose the hospital tags and here's my disheveled post-surgery body that's say I'm never gonna be able to do the Ironman I'm never gonna be like a sub ten hours and that's it and you just think about all the negatives and that you're never gonna you literally never gonna do it in your life that's it it's all over and then you come out hospital and step by step you build your strength back so I've just been out my time trial by for the first time since my operation so now I did about an hour on the biker so very sensible heart rate and actually I have to be honest my legs fell okay my the bit where I've had my operation my actual scar the theme of my trifling suit just runs straight over the top of the scar and that was the limiting thing I was gonna do an hour and a half but I to come home after an hour cuz it's just hurting you have to accept that you set yourself a training program and you've got to take it in your stride not kind of pretending to be anything I'm not you know I'm not a pro triathlete I'm an average guy I've got a full-time job I've got a family and in hindsight now it's easy to look back and think about it but it was actually good for me because you can't over train and the tedium of just training day in day out week in week out it can actually set you back whereas I had a complete month and a half off and I did nothing and when you start you've got more Drive you've got more motivation you're more rested your body's had a proper you know a proper recovery and actually it was probably good for me I never would have been able to force myself to have that kind of break without an injury or a you know an illness or a hospital trip so it probably did me a favor in the long run [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're here there's the finish line I see it Sunday practice the finishing pose one or two days it's 50/50 it's literally black and white it's ten hours on one second or it's 9:59 59 there's no light you know if I do 11 hours or 12 hours I'll feel exactly the same as I would do in 10 hours one second you know I've obviously been in hospital have my appendix out and thought I was gonna have to cancel it and so on so forth and you just go through this whole long journey and it seems like the last five months of my life have all been building up to today you know I've got a job and I've got a family and stuff there is other stuff going on in the background but in my mind all the time it's like ah yeah and I know my boss later in five months time in four months time in three months time and there's a training plan going on and so on and so forth so yeah so yeah it becomes a big deal all beer in your own mind really no one else cares if I do 1001 or 959 [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I did it all right now just hurts to keep it flew back to him I watch about half an hour okay so I'm running blind yeah I don't know what time I set my watch but she's dead and I didn't see the screen what time did I did just seeing that sign that says like finish line turned to me as a way I wanted to cry it's like I said I've done it I'm there I'm gonna turn onto the carpet now and the only thing was I didn't know what time I was on I tried to like I was looking for Kurt and Lexi I couldn't see them in the crowd I saw one of my friends from the Triathlon Club my high fives him and then ran around to the left and the right high-fiving people I finally saw Peter and Lexi at the end and gave them a high-five and I didn't look at the screen above my head either as I went over the finish line so I didn't actually know what time are done what time did you want to know yeah 9:36 with about 7k to go I just went off field then just started pushing and pushing I had one last gel one last like an event thing I dropped the bottle and just that was it just go for it and that was awesome I got to the finish shoot there was no one else in it so I could take my time and just enjoy it yes I think she was probably more relieved than I was that I did sub ten hours because now she knows I don't have to sign up for another one at Remender against hope and they were brilliant obviously you know I thought was like 20 months old yeah they were down there at first thing on the bike course and I saw them on the turnaround on the bike course and then they were there for every lap of the run course and before I finished it started tipping it down with rain and they were just waiting outside the change tent in the rain for me to go and get my recovery food and get changed and everything yeah just give him a big hug and say say thank you none of those 3400 capacitors or whatever the way yesterday have got to that start line without putting themselves through a significant amount of training you know sacrificing things etc etc and everyone's got their own story you know there's cancer survivors there that have been in absolutely no shape to do a 5k that have gone I need to do an Ironman tears time and if you know trained and trained and trained and they're doing it for charity and they're doing it for a good cause and allows other stuff and they get to the finish line just before the cutoff in like you know 15 hours and they're an emotional wreck because you know that was there that was their goal you've got guys with lesser goals like me that just want to do a particular time but it means something to me

Channel: Jonathan J Scott Films

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Id: kB52JVt7w0Y

Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 18 2018