Both involve 9 months of training with no drinking and partying, however in training for an Ironman over the course of 9 months you lose weight and gain extreme fitness. In the 9 months of pregnancy you gain weight and lose all your fitness. You then arrive at the day of days, one has a definite start time where a gun goes off and away you go, knowing what you are capable of and having a rough idea of how long you will endure the torture for. The other arrives with no warning and you have no idea how much pain you are in for nor how long you will endure this pain for. At the end of an Ironman you can finally rest and go back to drinking and partying, knowing that you have achieved something pretty amazing. After childbirth you have achieved something even more amazing by bringing a new life into the world, but your days of rest, relaxation and partying are long gone!!
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