Mark Lulling:  

OK, it has been a very long time since I have been in this website, do most of my talking and communicating thru FB. So here is the update, since I last visited here I was like on 5IM finishes. In 2015 I made a decision to go from 7 IM finishes to 12IM finishes as fast as I could to qualify for the Hawaiian IRONMAN World Championship. I did that with 5 IM finishes in 24 months, went from 7 to 12 and then registered for Hawaii. Ended up doing two more IM races to meet validation so I sit on 14 finishes now. I will take it, 14 for 14 finishes. So, stupid virus hit and cancelled this years race BUT I have re-accepted the invite to race in 2021 in Kona Hawaii. So if you remember, next October 9th you can follow my progress in Kona as I race to try to get an PR of better than 13:22 finish. This race is and will kick my butt big time, but I am ready for it. Training now ( 2020 Sept ) pretty heavy and will do a 52 week push into Kona. The whole time I will be racing in Kona I will be smiling knowing I will be racing with the WORLD's fastest athletes. 140.6 miles across Hawaii. In 2019 there were roughly 93K athelets around the world who raced and finished an IRONMAN race. Out of those 93K, only 2200 get to race Hawaii. I am fortunate and honored to be one of those next year. If you want to get in touch...…..ping me on FB. UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE 2020 was cancelled, 2021 was cancelled, 2022 ( Feb ) was cancelled and finally in Oct 2022 I went out and finally got back to Kona for the World Championships. 2022 was a decent year of training, spent 2 weeks in Hawaii training in Kona and Honolulu to get myself ready. Training went well back home and I had to send my bike out 1 month before the race.....big mistake. My old racing bike was so uncomfortable that more than 3 hours in the saddle was painful. This really compromised my last month of training and pre-race setup. Me, I rather be on the edge for racing, meaning I would have felt better to push the hard tra...Expand for more