Iron Jack

My Ironman 2011 quest just got a whole lot bigger.

Reebok and Speedo have come on board as sponsors of Ironjack for my 2011 challenge! I am absolutely blown away by their support, thank you to Michael Lim and all the team at Reebok and Speedo.  I won’t let you down.

I’ve just been to try some Reebok gear on at Rebel Sport and a really BIG congratulations to Reebok for having real sizes!!! I have been literally squeezing into the largest sizes of some other brands, but in Reebok I can fit size 16 with room to move - finally, a sports brand that is built for bigger people! Yah!

I have to confess that there is a strategy behind putting myself right out there in this way - the website, the blog, sponsors. It’s all about making this quest so big that there is absolutely no way that I can pull out of it. I figure that if I tell as many people as possible about my quest and its objectives, I quite simply have to go through with it - I’m eliminating as many potential mental obstacles as possible.

There is absolutely no doubt in mind that this will be the biggest physical and mental challenge that I have ever undertaken (yes bigger than Outward Bound, yes bigger than running my own business). I am fully expecting to be completely petrified and full of self-doubt - but isn’t that what life is all about? If we didn’t put ourselves out there - put ourselves beyond the comfort zone, we would never do anything different, we would never experience life to the fullest and we would never grow.

This is completely outside my comfort zone, but it’s the right thing to do for me, for my health, for my sanity and for the future of my family. Bring on the challenge.

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