Our youngest Daughter Laura, her best friend Kim, Kim's husband and Kim's Sister are all competing in the Hermann Memorial IronMan in Houston today.

I am a nervous wreck, but so proud of her and the committment and dedication it has taken her to get here. She is well trained and ready for it. She is out of the water, 1:36 on the swim and now on the Bike portion which should take her about 6 hours. SIL Glenn is there with her and keeping me updated.

Asking all my LCT friends to keep her in their thoughts today as she competes in this long and grueling competition and wish her success.

Very humid & temps climbing today. Wishing all of them the best of luck and wonderful times & results.

Just saw Laura's split time for the bike ride, 3:15 at the half way point.

Go Laura!

JoAnn, I was just reading about the Ironman online and it's in the Woodlands, which is our next door neighbor town! This site will have pix up after the event, maybe we will see one of Laura!

Thx Karen. Glenn has me one before the start and then has posted a couple on FB, but I don't know how to post them.

update - Glenn just saw her at mile 99 on the bike portion and said she was smiling!

update - Laura has passed the 16 mile point in the marathon, averaging arund 11 min miles at this point. Still standing. Will update again later with her finish time.

I am really proud of her, and I say this with tears in my eyes, happy, proud tears.

JoAnn - it was on the local news tonight. You should be proud. Quite an accomplishment.

Thanks Betty.

We were watching the live feed from the finish line and actually saw her cross and heard her name announced. She finished in about 13:06 total time, don't have the official time yet.

I am so proud of her, so happy for her and am crying my eyes out at what an amazing person my daughter is, and how much determination and dedtication it took for her to do this. I was so nervous, and stressed the last couple of days, which I tried not to show, but she was always been a strong willed kid and when she made up her mind to something then it was going to happen and she just proved that today. .WOW!

Double wow JoAnn!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing, JoAnn! You have reason to be proud. WOW indeed!

JoAnn, I had to google to find out what Ironman is. All I can say is that I'd be crying tears of pride as well! What training it must have taken to prepare for this.

Congratulations to Laura and to you and Frank too.

Her official overall time was 13:06:32, her oveall finish position was 928 - she finished 193 in female division and 39th in her age group. i think she said there were something like 2400 participants. The stats don't show how many actually finished, but she finished under 1000. She also said that she did much better than she expected, when we gave her the stats last night, she had thought she wouldn't finish for 14 plus hours.

When we talked last night she was on a high and couldn't stop talking and I just cried my eyes out. We are really proud of her.

What an accomplishment! I would be bursting with pride! Congratulations!!!

That's great....you and Frank have every reason to be so proud of Laura.

What determination! Congrats to her and no wonder you're bursting with pride in such accomplishment. I hope there is a celebration planned!