Deca Iron Man

I recently read an article on the internet titled 1997 World Deca-Ironman Championships by Bobby Brown (http://www.bobbysrun.co.uk/ironman.html). The article was about Brown completing a Deca-Iornman. The race started with a 24 mile swim, then a 1120 mile bike, and finaly 262 mile run. Brown competed in the race because he wanted to reach his full potential in life, and without competing in this ultimate test of endurance wasn't living to his full potential. It takes alot of time to prepare for a race like this and Brow was well prepared. Since the race takes over 8 days, Brown once stayed for 60 hours to see how his body reacted under extreme tiredness. He would also swim for seven hours at a time to react the boardom of the swim during the race. Brown realized he would need some rest during the race, but he knew he could only aford one hour of sleep every day. He made his body clock used to only sleeping one hour at a time by setting his alarm at 11pm, and once he woke up he would set his alarm for one hour later. He would do this throughout the night. After weeks of doing this, he would automatically wake up after one hour every night. Brown said the training was the hardest part, and the race would be easy. This makes scence, becase he spent two years training every day for this event. All of the suffering he went through almost every day was harder than the race. The race started at noon on November 17th, 1997. To complete the swim portion, Brown had to swim 1520 laps of the pool. It took him over 13 hours to complete this. Then it was off to the bike. He had to bike 980 laps around the track to do this. Sinnce this took over 4 days, he had slept for 4 hours, one hour each day. The leg of the race was the run, 10 marathons back to back. This took him another 4 days. During the run he was in so much pain that he took 6 ibuprofin to dull the pain. He ended up taking to many making him very sick. At the end of the race he was fatigued that he started crying uncontroably. It took Brown over two years to recover from the race, which was partly due to the ibuprofin. He had completed the ultamate test of endurance, and learned alot about himself, including pushing through pain barriers, and his metal and physical limits.