In previous blogs, you have heard from our Doctors along with myself discuss proper foot care, shoe gear, biomechanics and pretty much everything to do with your feet.

So we decided it is time to change things up a bit. I am inviting you along with friends and family to take a journey. Each week I will be updating you on the trials and tribulations associated with a “task” we elected to do for the next 11 or so months. The task is completing our first full ironman distance race to be held on May 21, 2011 at the inaugural Texas Ironman.

It is our hope as you read this blog you think about not only your feet but to also think about what you can do to live the healthiest life. We hope to inspire you as well as have a few laughs along the way. Alas, the journey begins!

The Journey to a Texas Ironman…..
by:Janet Dixon

So Dr. Crane pops over to my desk last Thursday and with a smile says “Guess what you are doing for us tomorrow morning?” I reply back to her “What am I doing for us tomorrow morning?” She replies “You are enrolling us in the Texas Ironman”. I freeze and again try to understand how the human stomach can literally fall all the way down your leg and wind up in your big toe. I am sure I looked at her with a get out of town look. I sat at my desk bewildered. How I am going to complete a 2.4 mile open water swim, 112 mile bike ride and a 26.2 mile run all in the same day?

For the rest of the day and night, in the back of my head questions of can I do this or will I be strong enough to go a total of 140.6 miles or really…Me?? After much discussion with previous Ironman finishers, a lengthy conversation with my triathalon coach and my family the air began to clear. The race date is May 21, 2011 which is just under a year from now. Sure I can finish….gulp!

I wake up Friday morning nervous actually it was more like scared straight. Of the folks I am to enroll online which includes myself I receive text messages and notes not to be late – I have to be online ready to enroll at 8:00am. So here I am sitting at my desk – READY! I attempt online registration with an immediate response to try again later. Thinking this was an obvious sign, I soon realized the registration opens at 10:00am pacific and that would be noon central time zone. Jeez, the group is so wound up no one realized the correct time to enroll including myself. ;)

Eventually the noon hour strikes and once again I am online. After filling in online forms, we are registered for the 2011 Inaugural Texas Ironman! Whoo-hoo! Word spreads like wildfire and folks are either in complete support or believe we have lost a majority of our gray matter.

It’s going to be okay……right? Next week we start reporting on our training, I already have a few "incidents" just from this weekend. Stay tuned! ;)