"Come for my Ironman Mum!" -- said Andy. I know you love our races and you have a few good years left -- just travel and enjoy your time.
Andy finished well
So David my older boy said, " Ill book your tickets on Virgin and not BA who always loses your luggage. And you have to stopover both ways in London. Better to break journey with us rather than do the long long trip to the US at one go."
I'm glad I listened as it made the trip really easy to handle and I got to spend a few days in London.
So whats an Ironman for the uninitiated reading this.
An IRONMAN is a long-distance triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile marathon run, totaling 140.6 miles. The distance, originating from a 1978 Hawaii race to determine the fittest athlete, is considered one of the most demanding one-day sporting events in the world and is a branded race series by the IRONMAN Group.
Andrews Ironman was in Augusta, Georgia and I was excited to go and witness it and scream for him. Augusta too was my grandmothers name and his great grand mother and --great great grandmother of the kids! A really beautiful woman from a Goan family from Mombasa.
So I flew into London, spent time with my eldest David and family for a few days and then took the Delta flight to Atlanta and then another Delta flight into Greenville -- Spartanburg. All American flights are always delayed and I came in an hour late. Lucky the airport in both London and Greenville are not crazily far away for the boys to drop and pick me.
That boy of mine is a fighter from the time he was a child. And he has inherited Dads and my genes in athletics. What a joy to watch him compete and it reminded me of how he won the Asians and bought his motorbike with the prize money. For Andrew there's no such word as can't -- Dad was tough and brought us up like that and I have passed it down to the boys. So needed in their new countries where they live now.
Its such a joy to visit the boys. They love us coming and so as long as I can, I will visit both homes. Lucky for me they love India too so they visit once a year as well. And thankfully our girls are Bangalorean too so that pull is forever there!
