That is scary photo of me.
I will take you farther back with a few that I am sure Slowman and Monty and very few others will know or remember:
When they moved Ironman from Oahu to Kona (I believe it was 1981)
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When they shortened the USTS run from 15K to 10K (1983-1984)
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When they had moved Ironman from February to October (1982) to give those that did not live in San Diego the entire summer to train for it. There were two Ironman races that year.
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When I showed up at Ironman 1983 with purple hair
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When Wildflower was an art Festival that included a triathlon and you could sign up the morning of the race
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When they did not permit wetuits at the Escape from Alcatraz (I did it twice without it)
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The Monterey Bay Half Ironman distance race
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The Ricoh Ironman held in Santa Monica in the spring of 1984. It was the first Ironman (TM) race outside of Kona.
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The World Wildlife Fund Ironman distance race held in Manhattan Beach in August of 1983 with a huge prize purse, won by Tom Brady.
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The Kauai Loves You Triathlon (1984) that was swim, run, bike, and all entrants got a Pink T-Shirt that had a cow with an egret on her back.
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Forte Clothing
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When they weighed you at the half way point of Ironman.
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When Monty and Kim Bushong raced Ironman in leopard print trisuits.
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The very first pro triathlon race, the Malibu Triathlon (self proclaimed) National Championships in October 1982, where they pulled 1/3 of the field out of the surf with hypothermia, won by Ferdy Massomino.
or THE HUMAN RACE Triathlon in Newport Beach that started with a 25 criterium style draft legal race, followed by a 10K run, followed by a 1000m swim.
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