Local man completes Ironman Mont-Tremblant
A Red Deer area man is basking in the glow of completing his 10th Ironman competition last weekend.
Competing in the Male 40-44 category, Craig Schmitt finished with a time of 9:49:26 in the Ironman Mont-Tremblant on August 19.
Schmitt says it’s an amazing race that’s well organized and in a beautiful location he may normally not see.
“It’s a long triathlon, so you swim for four kilometres, then you bicycle for 180 kilometres and then you run a marathon which is 42 kilometres,” Schmitt explains. “Last year, I actually took the year off from doing any triathlons and I missed it and my wife and my kids, they all encouraged me to get back into it. So basically last year, the same day this event occurred last year, I signed up for it and started training then.”