Volunteering in Branson at the 70.3 Iornman.
For those of you who don't know much about Triathlons it is
were you do three sports in a row. The typical and most common is to swim,
bike, and run.
The 70.3 Iornman it is
1.2 mile swim / 56 mile bike / 13.1 mile run (1/2 marathon.)
70.3 is half the distance of a Full Iornman.
A full Iornman is 2.4-mile swim/ 112-mile bike / 26.2 miles
(a marathon) 140.6 total miles.
We have done sprint triathlons 400 meter swim/12 mile bike /
5K run. It might not sound like much next to Ironman but let me assure you it
is hard. We were planning on doing an 70.3 Iornman this past race season but
due to injuries we were not able to. Lord willing we will be doing an Iornman
this up coming year 2012.
We wanted to volunteer for the one in Branson for so many
reasons.
The three main reasons were we wanted to see how they were
run, what to expect, and to show our support for the sport. It was such a
wonderful experience and an awesome event. So many walks of life and so many
different ages, sizes, colors, ethnicity, regions, and countries were
represented.
Our experience volunteering was
