Ironman Tulsa 2021
Race week is finally here. Ten months in the making, it’s finally go time. After training for Ironman Arizona, only to have it cancelled a week and a half ahead of time, we had the option to transfer to Tulsa on May 23, 2021 compared to waiting another calendar year to hear those words, “Heather Burd, you are an Ironman” from Mike Reilly’s microphone as I cross the finish line. Without doing any thinking of the time of year, what the course would be like or knowing anything about Tulsa, we looked at the Navy schedule and said May is our best bet of doing this together, so we transferred our registration. A few months later I realized Tulsa would be ALOT hillier than Florida, even windier than Florida, and at the end of May who knows if a tornado would be coming or not? Thursday : I flew into Tulsa on Thursday evening. On my plane from Denver, Colorado to Tulsa, Oklahoma I met a few fellow Ironmen who were also participating that weekend. One was a member of Team RWB and ano...