They want me to focus on Kyle the athlete, so my training regimen is pretty similar to anyone else whos training for an Ironmansix days a week. We obviously ramped up to where we had some really long workouts about three weeks ago, and then we replica Ulysse Nardin watch started to taper off. By the time we got to the long stuff, I was doing 2025 hours a week, 100mile bike rides, 20mile runs. I had a pretty lengthy base training, just because Im not coming from a place of being an athlete for the last 10 years. Prior to the transplant, I spent a decade really being inactive just because, physically, I couldnt do much.
From a physical standpoint,compared to the other athletes, Im probably near the bottom of the rung, but Im hoping that, mentally, Im up to the challenge.Whatever possessed you to do this?Prior to my transplant, I knew I wanted to do an event, and I kind of decided on triathlon. And so, the week I was in the hospital after the replica Zenith watch transplant, my wife and I started looking at the triathlon schedule and chose the Malibu triathlon. It was about 11 months after my transplant that I did that race. I did a couple other races, and somebody mentioned Ironman. I thought that was ridiculousI mean, Id just had a heart transplant, so Im not doing an Ironman.
But I started looking around and I noticed that the date of this race is my heart transplant anniversary. My heart transplant was on October 10, 2006, so this Saturday is my threeyear anniversary. When I saw that date, I thought to myself, thats too good not to try. So I talked to my doctor andasked him if it was possible, and he assured replica Baume & Mercier watch me that if I did the training that, yes, my heart can be made strong like anybody elses. So here we are now, three years later.Youre also a fourtime cancer survivor. Have you always been an athlete?I was first diagnosed when I was 18. I had my heart transplant when I was 35, so for that 17year stretch, I was either fighting cancer or heart disease. When I was a kid, I played sports, like most 16yearolds. Its hard for me to say if I would have been an athletic adult or not.
