Long course alternatives to IM events and/or your favorite course
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brittda posted 23 weeks ago.
Does one preclude the other? Can you go sign up and take your family vacation another week?
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jhudalla posted 23 weeks ago.
I'd have to say SILVERMAN!!!! Only because I biked the course nearly every weekend since last summer and have swam in lake Mead about 2 dozen times since December. The event is TOP notch when it comes to organization ( which is more than I can say for most other non-IM events I've done ) and the swag bag is FAAAAAAAR superior to any IM event or otherwise.
Example; this past year the swag included;
1 transition backpack
Hat - of course
finisher T, of course
2 Water bottles
4 nutition bars/goos
And about 3 20ft cedar trees worth of pampflets and handouts.
Weary is the path that does not challenge.
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TriSooner posted 23 weeks ago.
run2race wrote:
You hear a lot about Ironman events. Lots of people are Ironman event finishers or, getting ready for their first Ironman event or, want to one day complete an Ironman event (queBob CostasAl Trautwig over string instruments waxing about how Ironman is the ultimate endurance challenge).Quote:Fixed it for you. If by 'lots,' you mean 40,000 a year tops worldwide (20 Ironman-branded events X 2,000 entrants at most). There are very few Trifuel members whose preferred distance is the full. Most are sprint and Oly. I'm just sayin'. I suck at short distances.run2race wrote:And let’s be honest, if you’re not of the aforementioned, who really cares about the event you’re preparing for!And it can hurt your career. I learned that from a previous boss when I overhead him comment about how much golf a coworker played (maybe a round during the week and one on the weekend). "If so-and-so can play that much golf, he must not have enough work to do." So, I never mention my 15-hour weeks.
You can still try to sign up online. I have gotten into three IM events with no on site registration. It is still possible (not at Canada, jerks). Next, go to Disney in connection with IM Florida and drive over while the squids are screaming their heads off inside Magic Mountain (dating myself). Can't be that far. Or is it?
run2race wrote:What are you looking forward to and excited about. I definitely am most interested in fulls, halfs, trail runs and adventure races, but let’s open this up to anything.Other than IM evetnts. I like your ideas. I only found out about the following events from someone else:
- Comrades Marathon http://www.comrades.com/
- Survival of the Shawangunks http://www.ulster.net/~sosnyta/
- Bataan Memorial Death March http://www.bataanmarch.com/
- Mount Washington Road Race (run)http://www.mountwashingtonroadrace.com/
- Minnesota Border to Border (I need a partner. Anyone?) http://www.mnb2b.org/
- Mount Washington Hill Climb (bike) http://www.mtwashingtonbicyclehillclimb.org
- Waikiki Rough Water swim, which is part of Ironman history www.wrswim.com/
- Colorado River 100 mile paddle www.coloradoriver100.com/
- Pikes Peak Ascent www.pikespeakmarathon.org/ I'm doing this in August
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kylie posted 23 weeks ago.
Vineman is a great non-Mdot full (a couple weeks after the Vineman 70.3).
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beads1985 posted 23 weeks ago.
I liked the ChesapeakeMan in MD last year.
Or pick a destination that is near an event.
I went to Rome on my honeymoon in March so I could run the Rome marathon.
The marathon was in the begining of the trip, and then we spent the rest of the time doing the sightseeing thing.
Nothing to it, but to do it
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rlauredo posted 23 weeks ago.
Great Floridian Triathlon, in Clermont, just outside of Orlando. Seldom sells out. October 25, 2008. http://greatfloridian.com/ Full 2.4-mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2-mile run. Was very popular in the decades when the only official IMs were Kona and one or two others.
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TriSooner posted 23 weeks ago.
beads1985 wrote:
I liked the ChesapeakeMan in MD last year.
Or pick a destination that is near an event.I went to Rome on my honeymoon in March so I could run the Rome marathon.
The marathon was in the begining of the trip, and then we spent the rest of the time doing the sightseeing thing.
+1 Marathon cruise (ie, Miami Marathon + cruise on Monday)
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run2race posted 23 weeks ago.
Marathon cruise, now we're talking. It's definitely on my list of things to do.
You hear a lot about Ironman events. Lots of people are Ironman event finishers or, getting ready for their first Ironman event or, want to one day complete an Ironman event (que Bob Costas over string instruments waxing about how Ironman is the ultimate endurance challenge). And let’s be honest, if you’re not of the aforementioned, who really cares about the event you’re preparing for!
Me. Call it sour grapes because my family laughed at my attempt to replace our vacation to Disney with camping in the Adirondacks so that I can register for next year’s big event, but I would love to hear what your favorite non-Ironman events are. What are you looking forward to and excited about. I definitely am most interested in fulls, halfs, trail runs and adventure races, but let’s open this up to anything.
Your well done local event could fit perfect with someone else’s business/pleasure travel plans or even could become someone’s destination event.