Ironman Italy 2018 Part 1: of jellyfish and warm waters.

Welcome to Ironman Emilia-Romagna, I will be your guide. Suddenly I start to feel like an object, depersonalized - standing on the shore, in a perimeter created with railings. All around me are others, myself - us. Us, people who have spent the last year training, planning, pushing our own limits mentally, physically and all …

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Ironman 70.3 Finland: Road to World Championship

Pre-race: The race was happening in Finland, Lahti region. The selling point of this particular 70.3 Ironman event was that you race through "polar night" - meaning that we would start pretty late and the last finisher would still cross the finish line with bright sky. Usually races start as early as 06 - 07 …

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