 All right, so I am all right, so I am in Kona, Hawaii and I've been here for the wife's been All right, so I'm here at I'm hearing All right, so I'm currently in Kona, Hawaii and I've been here with the wife She works for a company US company called doTERRA. They do essential oils and the conference is finished So yesterday I went to the local bike shop here in Kona bike works It's called got myself a felt AR one of their aero road bikes and I'm going to do when in Rome the Kona Ironman course the cycling part of it. This is about 180 Ks and I thought I'd bring you along on the ride Housekeeping things as we get going number one, this is a higher helmet and I can't get the strap in I've got to tuck it in underneath As you can see something pops out That's the reason why I know there's a as this channel grows. It's a few people out there that like to pick up on some things to all my American Canadian and Whoever drives on the other side of the road or the right side of the road according to you today. I'm filing Riding my bike on the right side of the road To all my other subscribers Aussies UK Kiwis Today I might actually die But now in all seriousness the beauty of this course is that It's a straight line pretty much. So I've got a huge shoulder in the road here. I Just have to make sure I don't decide to turn left or right for whatever bizarre reason and end up on the other side of the road And I should be right I The housekeeping items left my cycling glasses Back home in Australia. So I've got these casual ones on. Hey, that's all right And I don't have a bike computer today. So I'm gonna have to harness my inner Bruce Lee to don't think there So this ride is solely needed you know a Christmas day you've got a bit of a license to Do what you want eat like a pig. I know Christmas is still fresh and everyone's mine well Feel like the same applies when you go overseas, but even more so when you go to the US the amount of deep-fried food that I've eaten massive Juicy hamburgers Seriously, I've been a pig. So this 180 K's is solely needed I've got to tell you I was about 50 K's in the ride then and those two black coffees that I had this morning I didn't go to the bathroom. I didn't have the opportunity to it came on real strong then and luckily Have to be riding parts of restroom here. It wasn't for that. I reckon I would have been jumping behind some Volcanic rock and unleashing but thankfully restrooms So what's kind of interesting about this course? So actually we drove out here probably four or five days ago for an activity with the doterra conference and There are probably much more scenic rides you could do on Kona going up hills near the volcano and around there but I was just I was just drawn to do Kona the the Ironman route and What happens is you're sort of going along sort of like very desolate. It's like volcanic rock and we heard from a bus driver that That part of Kona that we sort of just went through is the tenth driest part of land in the world Reason being the terrain here the way the mountains and the volcano they push the wind They push the clouds away from certain parts of the island the one we just went down And as a result other parts of the island Get an absolute crap load of rain. So what we're going to see shortly is the terrain It changes significantly So I've just gone about three or four mile That's right. I'm speaking the American lingo now past the main town where the Ironman turns and the reason I wanted to go a little bit further. I'm going to stop now because the shoulder and the roads getting quite bad, but Like the terrain now, I don't know if you've seen that movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger Where he's fighting an alien in the jungle. It's literally like that. It's like full-blown jungle terrain once the houses stop it's just complete jungle and Literally, what was it maybe 15 20 mile that way? It's completely barren just volcanic rock and you can see right here of the clouds sort of surround the main town and that Sort of area that I was cycling on back there, but as you can see, it's pretty dark here. They're like rain clouds here So the contrast in the environment in Kona in Kona Sorry, I just had a little nut but Not far as you can tell it's quite unbelievable So I've just bumped in one of locals here, and he's gonna tell me the exact pronunciation of the town What is it? It's got a Havi. Havi. H-A-W-I. Havi. Yeah, okay, and you've grown up. You're born and raised Yeah, okay. Where does the Ironman turn? Ironman. The Ironman. You know how the Ironman calls? Oh, the Ironman. Yeah, it turns around right here. Oh right here. Yeah, right out here Yeah, okay, cool. What happens in the town when the Ironman's on? No room to park. Hundreds of people. Yeah, it's beautiful. Yeah, you gotta see this thing, man. Yeah All right, man. Thanks for that. Appreciate it. Have a good day. Cheers Oh I look like a giant mushroom head That's what happens when you're high helmets I reckon now if you were doing the Ironman, I'm looking ahead of me. I must be Channeling my inner Bruce Lee approaching About 90 miles. What's that? 130, 140 kilometers and I'm looking ahead of me and it's just sort of very barren straight roads and if you're doing the Ironman right now knowing that you had a marathon ahead of you Nine games would be going on right now Just handed the felt back done and dusted Pulled a track route. I'm not really sure but anyway Really enjoyed that. Hope you did too and I'll catch you all in the next video