IM-Everyman

IM Everyman- catchy title I thought up after I discovered all the racier blog titles were unavailable. Despite not being the first, second, or even third choice, I find that this title best explains who I am and the reason why I started this blog. I am everyman. I am the average guy in everyway. Average height, average weight, average athletic ability, average smarts(or dumbs depending on how you look at it), average, average, average. Just like every man out there I do some pretty dumb stuff. To paraphrase a line from the Matrix (Everyman loves that movie) the source of my greatest strength and my greatest weakness, is not hope. In fact, for me it is ignorance. It is kind of like a super power (the worst super power if you were going to rank them) that allows me to rocket past the line where most people with common sense stop. It isn’t a mutation like most of the cool super powers so much as it may be a genetic abnormality or possibly the effects of an undocumented brain injury. Either way, my super power has gotten me into a bit of a bind and I thought that the best way to get out of it is to open the books and let everyone take a peek. The bind I speak of is being selected as a lottery pick to participate in the Ford Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii this October. I think that documenting all of my steps along the way would prompt advice from some kind people traveling around the internet with fewer “challenges” than me in the smarts (or dumbs) department.