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My name is Morgan…
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And this is the story of how…
I became an Ironman
(ole!)
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I always dreamed of being an Ironman…
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I did some Marathons…
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Then I started doing triathlons…
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And that was pretty hard…
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But I made some friends…
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Called the SoCal Collective
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And someone said…
Hey, let’s train for Ironman Wisconsin
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So we signed up…
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I blame these guys!!!
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Training was really hard…
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…REALLY hard
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And I was always hungry!
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One year later…
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…we went to Madison.
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Aren’t we a good looking bunch?
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I packed my bags
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And racked my bike…
(Black Dynamite)
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Did some last minute carb loading
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And the next thing you knew we were at the start line…
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(That’s me, freaking out…)
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Don’t we look calm…
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So calm…
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NOT CALM!!!
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ME
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Boy was I glad to be done with that…
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Whoa whoa whoa. We have to run up WHAT?!
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NO problem Ironman Wisconsin!
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I picked up my transition bag…
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And ran to change…
(Sorry, this is a G-rated presentation)
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Time to bike!
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The course was pretty…
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And I made some friends…
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At some points I
didn’t feel great…
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I would rather be here…
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Or here…
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But I was here…
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But then I saw my mom!
Mom and Aubrie! Me!
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And I was so happy!
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Hi mom!!
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So I kept my eye on the prize!
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(prize)
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And before I knew it, I was on my way back to Madison.
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And started to run
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And run…
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For 26.2 miles…
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ouch
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But then I caught up to Nate!
(he’s my boyfriend)
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And we were so happy!
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We saw our friends…
AubrieMama Barilka
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Did I mention Aubrie and Robin GOT MARRIED LAST
WEEKEND!!
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(we really love them)
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…and we made some new friends too
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And even saw some teammates!
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We were having a great time
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Really great time…
I don’t know who that is, but she was probably having a pretty good time too
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And after 12 hours, 57 minutes, and 16 seconds…
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THIS HAPPENED!!
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They gave me one of
these
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And I got to hug my mom
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And all our teammates!
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We were so happy (and pretty hungry)
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And I was feeling good!
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Really good!
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOCAL
COLLECTIVE!!!