At the beginning
there was a person who liked sport of all kind — football, volley, biking, skiing… And one day he decided to try a triathlon to challenge himself. At that time, his opinion about the Ironman triathlon was, that you need to be professional athlete and fool enought to cross the finish line, because work and other daily routines wouldn’t allow you to have enough time for this.
One year later he became one… So it is possible, actually everything is possible ;) What’s next? Another Ironman medal in the following year.
After 2 finishes the next step and dream of every challenge-seeking amateur triathlon enthusiast is… of course, the magic island — Kona.
With books Triathlon 2.0: data-driven performance training and The Triathlete’s Training Bible on the night stand, kind a geeky mathematical background, imaging that emotional finish-line moment in my head over and over again and enough of the masochism to push myself hard, I’m gonna try to find a way how to get to the Kona.

9–10
As the qualification itself can’t be a goal, it depends on other competitors at the same race, I had to choose something more specific, measurable. So it is a 9:10 — finisher time that should qualify me. Of course this time depends on the specific race and the race-day condition, but still it’s something that I can measure and see my progress. As I said “it should”, doesn’t mean it will. It could happen that on the race all the best AG (age-group) athletes will be there and for qualifying I’ll need much better time than this. But this is something I can’t change and forsee, so I stick the time as my goal.

However I haven’t choosen the race yet (so how can I plan my next year?!), I have a pretty clear idea when it should be (so I can aim my ATP — annual training plan for this period) and what it should be (the type of race which suits me the best).
So my journey starts the next monday 10th of September…
