-swim the english channel

-climb all the 8000ers withous supplimental oxygen

-50 states marathonclub

-badwater

-Leadville 100 mtb, get a belt buckle
-Kona, by qualifying
-Norseman, get a black shirt
-boston & nyc, by qualifying

I'm sure it will grow over time

Not that long I would have produced a list similar to yours (Badwater, WS100, RAAM) and added Marathon Des Sables.
Now, I do not really have one and currently mostly focus on being out there and the next race (which are a bunch of Fall %Ks & 10Ks)..

Fred.

Kona finisher

Coast to Coast in NZ (one day)

Norseman

sub 2.35 marathon at NYC, sub 1.10 half marathon anywhere

and in my dreams - win AmZof long course (I was a bag of nails away last year - no mistakes next time)

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Get a pro card.

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Co-Founder And Previous Owner Of FLO Cycling

1st Masters AG'er at Kona.

AG Nat TT champion.

Sub 16 5k.

Sub 50 40k.

Boston Marathon, New York Marathon, Athens (Greece) Marathon

Ironman Hawaii, any way I can get there

Finish every North American Ironman before I turn 30 (5 more years to do 6 more)

Ultraman Hawaii (or Canada, if I can't get in)

NC TTT

I also want to run with the bulls in Pamplona and watch a mountain stage of the Tour.

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2014: 40k TT focus

Race reports at http://tripikapp.blogspot.com

win the erock duathlon, hang on with the A-pack on the ATC group ride when the roadies are there, 27mph at the mopac 8 mile tt

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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Comrades Marathon

IM Hawaii

USMS 2 mile Cable Swim National Champion (sub 42:00)

Sub - 2:15 in an Olympic Dist.

Complete a full w/ a respectable time

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(someone had to say it)

Kona Finisher
Leadville 100
Wild West Relay...so much fun with friends

24 hour mtn bike race
ride across the country

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"Here I go again on my own!"

name that tune

I like this topic!

I always wanted to do Escape from Alcatraz Tri and any Ironman. I did both of those this year.

I would say:
London Marathon
Boston Marathon
Kona Ironman

I really like the unique races as well. Always wanted to do the Rekyavik (SP), Iceland marathon.

(the ultramarathons don't tickle my fancy yet)

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2010 Races:
Escape from Alcatraz Tri
Ironman Louisville

I have a long term goal to do a sub-9hr IM before I'm 40.

Lots of other "endurance bucket list" boxes to tick on the way, but that's what gets me out the door at the mo'.

Sounds ambitious but by the time I'm ready I'm convinced sub-9 will be the new sub-10 ;)

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blood, sweat...and big gears

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali

On My Bucket List
- Raid Pyrenees
- Ironman Canada
- 50 Mile Ultramarathon
- Marathon every year till I'm 70
- Canadian Ski Marathon Gold till I'm 65
- Gatineau Loppet 50km Classic XC till I'm 70
- Rideau Lakes Cycle Tour till I'm 75

Checked Off My List
- Boston/New York/Chicago Marathons
- Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200km Randonnee
- Paris-Brest-Paris 1200km Randonnee
- Qualify for RAAM
- Canadian Ski Marathon Permanent #
- Ironman Lake Placid

Kona
Comrades
Pikes Peak - marathon, ascent or double, doesn't really matter
A 100 mile trail run. Any mountain course would do.
Boston
A collection of other assorted marathons too long to list.

The elusive sub 16 5K and 2:35 marathons would be nice, but those are unlikely to happen as I am getting older and I swim and bike too much.

Boston
Kona
50 marathons in 50 states
50 triathlons in 50 states
Rocky Mountain Double Marathon
LOTOJA
Badwater

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"The enthusiasm (absorbing or controlling possession of the mind by any interest or pursuit) is needed before breaking the milestone and not after." Sergio Escutia, on Lukas Verzbicas' subdued reaction to breaking 4 minutes in the mile.

100 years old.

To Do:

Leadville 100 running - get buckle
NYC marathon
qualify for and finish Kona
win my AG in a 70.3 (not super likely to happen but not impossible)

Done:

Qualify and race Boston
complete an Ironman (Silverman 2006)
qualify for NYC marathon

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I'm on an ultramarathon kick. I've already done marathons, and I've already done Ironman (6 of them). To top that, I've recently done the Vermont 100. How do I top that?

Arrowhead 135 (running in subfreezing temps)
Badwater 135 (either the race or solo in searing temps)
Hardrock 100 (one of the toughest ultras in North America)
Fulfill the Grand Slam of Ultras (Western States 100, Vermont 100, Leadville 100, and Wasatch Front 100 in same year)
Do a Double Ironman (there are 2 to choose from and I might do one next year)

Some ridiculous fantasy things that I've thought about include running the 2000 mile Appalachian Trail or running across the United States. They probably won't happen, but hey, I can dream right?

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coachjoegold@gmail.com
2010 Vermont 100 Ultramarathon: 28:09:15

This is a great thread!

RAAM (doing it in June with a 4 person team)
qualify for Kona
Ultraman Canada
Leadville 100 mtb

others that are rattling around:
Arch to Arc
RAAM(individual)

ridered.org
RAAM 2011

Sub 18 5k
Sub 2 hr Olympic race
Win my ag in a full/70.3
Qualify for Kona
Qualify for Boston in an ironman
100 mile running race
Give back as much to the sport as all the people have who helped me get to where I am/going

Leadville

Still to Do:

Boston
Kona
Comrades
A 100 mile trail race (Western states or Leadville...)
International IM

I'm crossing one off this weekend - Solo 24 hour MTB race at Moab

I've completed 3 Ultras, 3 IM's, a handful of double centuries, a couple dozen marathons...but I figure anything
I've done must not be all that hard and I'm much more interested in what would challenge me going forward.

Depending how long I ride this weekend - I think the 24 hour solo could put me deeper into the hurt locker than anything
so far. Riding past my camper every 2 hours makes for an easy bailout... so I'm not sure how hard I'll actually make it.

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(opening lines from Tim Krabbe's The Rider , 1978

Do the Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championships again.

Do a HALO jump on oxygen from above 15,000 feet.

Other stuff....

I'd like to do some more climbing but I don't like being above 22,000 feet- you just feel too crummy up there.

Not really endurance oriented but I'd like to dive with whale sharks, and I'd like to see a tiger shark and a white shark in person prefereably without a cage.

I'd also like to visit the Okavango Delta after having been to the Ngorongoro Crater.

I'd also like to have a nice lunch with hummous, good bread, a nice smoothie and an excellent salad along with a shish tawook and rice at a sidewalk cafe in downtown Baghdad without worrying about being safe.

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The Tri Shop.com

For all of you who have RAAM on your bucket list, check out the Ranonneurs USA website at http://www.rusa.org/ And also the Ultramarathon Cycling Associantion at http://www.ultracycling.com/
Randonneurs USA organizes brevets (rides) of 200, 300, 400 and 600km. And then there are additional randonnees of 1200km except in years when Paris-Brest-Paris is held. (Every four years. Next in 2011.) The 1200km randonnees can be used as qualifiers for RAAM For all of you Ironmen/women, you'll be more than challenged completing a 1200km randonnee within the RAAM qualifying time.

1200km randonees are no longer RAAM Qualifiers as of last year.
"However, prospective racers who have completed one or more 1200K randonees are encouraged to petition the RAAM RD to race solo RAAM." http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/....php?N_webcat_id=229


Bucket List
Half-Iron
Full Iron
Qualify for Kona
Furnace Creek 508
RAAM Solo Finisher

Qualify for Kona - missed by 1 place in 2007 and 2 places this year, no roll down both of these years in my AG
50 mile ultra marathon
50K ski marathon - thats my goal for this winter

Surprised at the couple Norseman's on here. I want no part of that.

Mine:

Just a sub 3 hr marathon and finish at Kona. Not too much to ask.

I'd like to bike across the USA, west-to-east, ocean-to-ocean. I'd also like to do something in Europe, maybe central spain, over teh pyrennes into France, then over the ALps into Italy or Switzerland.

I'd like to run the NY marathon, perhaps Boston. I've qualifed for both (NY gets significantly easier once you're 40!), just haven't done them. Kind of a logistics thing.

Definitely a lot of "Ooh, that sounds cool" races. I'll add running a sub 3:10:59 mary to mine to qualify for Boston.

Already done:

One IM (CONUS)

Three marathons in three states

Looks like I really need to get started...

Leadville MTB

Kona - by any means Qualifying preferred but that would mean no ice cream....;-(

Ultraman Canada

Western States 100

And the mother of all mothers in my book ( I don't like the extreme heat ) Badwater

And become a good long distance runner, before it's too late. ( stopping ice cream would help )

  

1. Win Boston Marathon with new AR
2. Win RAAM riding a unicycle backwards.
3. Grand Slam of Ultra in the same season, sub 16 in each race.
4. Win Green, Yellow and Polka dots at the Tour.
5. Put up a new route on K2
6. Climb Denali in winter wearing nothing but a Speedo.
7. Swim across the Arctic Ocean sans wetsuit.


I might do the 50K Loppet in Lake Placid this year just for fun.

Tom - the Iraq restaurant in the Souq in Doha, Qatar has great middle eastern food and it is much safer! buddy

Qualify for Kona.

Do an IM in a really cool place like Lanzarote or Nice.

1 hour 40K TT.

Upgrading to cat2 road cycling (I'm cat4 at the moment, and not a particularly good one)
Qualifying for Kona
Running a sub 3 marathon
Respectably running the crater lake marathon
Probably something similar to the Canadian ski marathon.
Eco challenge
And not really endurance per se, but rock climbing mid 5.12 grade

Some variety there and a few pipe dreams (eco challenge). Really I'd just like to try adv racing and some forms of competitive xc skiing, don't know a huge amount about either at the moment tho.

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I'd love to be able to climb at a 5.12 level. Hell, I wouldn't care if it was 5.12 sport. The best I was able to do was 5.10c sport and 5.8 trad.

I could never bring myself to trust those friggin' cams...

Best on-site I've ever done is 10.b sport on-site and 8+ trad clean (on a route that I took my first trad whip the year before, oops). Took close a year and a half off climbing that just ended recently now that I live near a rock gym and crags again.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ~Gandalf

Qualify for Kona (probably the toughest)
Leadville 100
Ride Alp d'Huez
Sub 2:15 Olympic
Sub 19 5k
New York or Boston Marathon
Go to North or South Pole

Boston Marathon

New York Marathon

London Marathon

Kona Ironman

Kona - Ultra Ironman

Canada - Ultra Ironman

Badwater Ultra

RAAM

Western States 100

There's a lot more, but I'd be a good half hour typing this out.

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"Chrissie wins because she trains really f'ing hard and races really f'ing hard and was blessed with a huge f'ing motor" Jordan Rapp

Crossing another one off the my list next May...Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Bucket List (still evolving)
- Boston Marathon - Check
- All the Marathon Majors (Chicago (x), NYC, London, Berlin, Boston(x))
- 2:45 Marathon
- Sub 10 IM - Check
- Qualify & Finish for Kona - Check
- Kona in every age group moving forward
- Grand Canyon RtRtR - Pending
- 50 Miler - Check
- 100 Miler
- Western States
- Leadville
- Badwater

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Ride it like I stole it.

Hike the AT sub 100 days.

Bag all CO 14ers.

Bike, Sub 1 hour WhiteFace Mtn. (in NY)

Give a chick 9+ orgasms in an hour.


(*above*, not necessarily in the given order)

most of my bucket list has been covered on here already, but another that i don't believe was mentioned yet:
i'd really like to ride an entire tour de france course.

please keep posting so i can find out about more awesome races that i need to add!

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>if you can't win, make the guy ahead of you break the record

Climb Kilinmanjaro (sp?) before the snow melts

Qualify for Kona

Be a Kona finisher is the top of my bucket list.


Did this one. Not sure where a civilian can do this. Besides, the civilian gear is much better, if you've got the money...and you're not carrying weapons. Oh, and you might want to check out HAHO jumps, too. They can be a ton of fun.


And...

Wildflower. Right next to finishing Kona.
Escape from Alcatraz...but the wife is terrified of the shark stories....made me promise not to do that one.
Abu Dhahbi Long Course
St Croix & The Beast
SavageMan & The Wall (& the brick!)


But that's all a long ways away....still training for the Buffalo Springs 70.3

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Admittedly, my endurance list is less agressive than some of you. My bucket list of events has things I "think" I'll enjoy rather than a random # of things like 50 marathons/50 states. I started to do something like that but I realized it wasn't as enjoyable of a process as I might have hoped.

Marathon - check
Pikes Peak Marathon - check
Ironman race - check
Kona (don't care if by qualifying or lottery) - This is the goal I've had the longest.
Boston Marathon by qualifying
Rim to Rim to Rim in Grand Canyon (looooove the GC)
Norseman (I wish I'd never seen the video cuz that's what hooked me)
Cycle through as many TDF climbs as possible in two weeks
Go to Everest base camp (not going up)
24-hour bike race
100-mile running race
Canadian Death Race
Hardest one - be able to do these things when I'm 60 and 70 and...

Sarge

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Kona
AmZof long course (maybe next spring)
Leadville
Ride the Rockies
I'd be down for that Norseman race
IMNZ
Wild Flower (although I hear there is no more Naked Aid Station, that's very disappointing)
Paris Roubaix or Flanders

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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. - Fight Club
Industry Brat.

what he said

bump! Can't let an awesome topic like this get lost.

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>if you can't win, make the guy ahead of you break the record

I just want to have a positive influence on others and make friends wherever I go.. Oh screw that crap, I want to kick ass and get back to Kona and make enough money that I can do it on a carbon fiber/ sram Red set-up with new Zipp 404s!

- Qualify for Kona M4549 @ St. Croix (always wanted to do St. Croix for last 10 years - never been)
- Be able to stay 4 weeks before/after in Kona, Maui, etc.
- Qualify and run NYC Marathon (only need a 1:30 HM for guaranteed entry)
- Lake Placid IM
- Break all my PRs set when M3539 (I didnt think possible until I saw friends do this at 2010 Augusta in M4044)
- Make enough $$ to get a regular 90 min massage 1 x week
- Own a cabin in the N GA mountains where I keep my 3 extra bikes and a few in other sizes for friends
- Win the lottery, then work in a bike shop, w Espresso machine, 2 hours/ day with no sales quotas.
- Serve as USA Swimming Official at a National Meet
- Watch my kids be the best they can (and want) to be in swimming or other chosen sports
- Never get hit by a car
- Be the first to get a 5i50 tattoo

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Damn, that's a cold ass honkey.

I'll join you in N. Ga. We should just find a small place and make it happen.

Bucket List Top 10 only:
Marathons- Boston, London, Paris, Big Sur, Marathon du Medoc
Tris- Kona, IMC, IMLP, Norseman, Silverman

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For me "don't get hit by a car again"

Boston Q
100 M finish
50
Kona Q
R2R2R Grand Canyon
Great Divide Mountain Bike Race
Attempt the Barkley

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Swim - Bike - Run the rest is just clothing changes.

Run the Comrades with one of my best friends to honour his dads green number

Just added. Go back home to do The Southern Storm Duathlon

Escape from Alcatraz Tri

Rutas de los Conquistadores

Leadville Double

Antartica Marathon

Big Sur Marathon

Run with the Bulls (the endurance event is drinking Spanish wine for three days/nights straight)

Phuket Triathlon (is that a 70.3 now?)

Norseman Triathlon

Incline in Colorado Springs under 28 minutes

Qualify for Kona when I hit 60 and finish better than my time at age of 45 (11:36)

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Salt Lake City, Utah

Great topic. Helped find new entries for my bucket list. Here it is (still work in progress):

- Qualify and finish the 5 World Marathon Majors: Boston, New York, Chicago, London and Berlin
- Qualify to World Championship 70.3 in Clearwater
- Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon
- American Zofingen Long Course
- Pikes Peak Marathon
- Antarctica Marathon
- Athens Classic Marathon
- Leadville Trail 100 MTB Race
- Finish Savageman and get my brick in the wall
- Alpe d'Huez Long Course Triathlon
- Comrades Marathon
- Qualify for and finish the Ironman World Championship in Kona
- Marathon every year till I am still able to walk

Great topic. Mine would include riding across the US and running the Grand Canyon rim to rim. If I ever did another stand-alone marathon it would have to be someplace unique (i.e. Reykjavik as someone else had mentioned). I've checked off running a marathon (21x), qualifying for Boston (twice) and doing an IM (6x). Unfinished business includes riding from my house to the tip of the Cape in Provincetown in one day (roughly 130 miles) - I tried it a few years ago and had a bad crash about halfway through, damaging the bike and myself in the process and having to call it a day. On the calendar for next year.

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[Attempt the Barkley]

That is indeed the correct way to put it :)

Fred.

Not sure what to call it, but it will involve triplets and chocolate syrup.

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Have done most of things I wanted. Still want to drive a loop of the U.S. and stop each day for a 1 to 2 hour run. Hope to do in the next 5 years.

Also hope to compete in tris for 50 consecutive years. I've got 22 years to go.

Time to revive an old thread.. I will ad a few that haven't been mentioned.


Kayak the Mississippi with my wife.. From the headwaters to the Gulf.

Cycle the blue ridge parkway.

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Austin Hardy -

Boston Marathon
Kona
Savageman half

For the most part I have pretty much accomplished everything I want to. Just would like to continue to enjoy racing and pick up a few more wins.

Maybe run under a 5:00 mile when I am forty. This would not be anything remarkable, but would just be confirmation that I am still healthy and enjoying this.

Run a 10K with my kids. No kids (not even married), but would like to have kids someday and still be healthy and fit enough to do a race when I do.

This and make an attempt at every half ironman in North America.

kona
at least one ultramarathon
endless summer (not really endurance, but i'd like to do it)

New knees and Kona

Kona Finish
Shoot my age

CJ
Slow, Old, Ironman

Primal Quest Adventure Race

Through hike the Pacifi Crest Trail

Through Hike Appalachian Trail

50 mile trail run (trying to tick that one off this weekend)

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dreamcatcher@astound.net
USAC & USAT level 2 certified coach

Qualify for Kona, 70.3 Champs, Boston & New York

Raid Pyrenees
Alpe d'Huez Triathlon
IM Cozumel, Canada, Mont Tremblant, France, Melbourne / Cairns

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Team Running Free
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Everest.
Hardrock 100.
Leadville 100 mtb.
Western States 100.
RAAM.

IM Kona
IM South Africa
Boston Marathon
Chicago Marathon
70.3 world Championships

Lessee...

- Pike's Peak Marathon
- Norseman
- Mt. Lemmon Marathon
- The Vasa
- Race Across the Sky

Should mention this isn't a bucket list. They're just events I'd like to do. If so, great. If not, I'll do other, cooler stuff. :)

And...I should be able to knock off 3 of the 5 in the next year...

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Mine is very similar:

Comrades
Embrunman
Norseman
Ursa Major
FC 508
Team RAAM
Rutas
Mount Hood 50 miler
Cascade Cream Puff

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Raising funds to help wounded veterans and racing RAAM 2013 with http://team4mil.org/
"If you are gonna charge... CHARGE HARD!"

I just may do Comrades next year. Up route. Wanna go?

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Salt Lake City, Utah

Complete IM with my 3 children
50 ironman by 50 (currently 18 in 6years and turned 40 this year)
Ultraman
More than 20 sub 10 IMs (current 13)
Sub 3 marathon
Sub 9 IM
Paris bres Paris
Comrades
Badwater

I'm already working on convincing Rachel.

Now, we need to convince the Buckleys...

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"If you are gonna charge... CHARGE HARD!"

A triathlon in each of the 50 states + DC and then a tri on each continent.

Cycleguy: Your list took me 18 years. You will not be disappointed in any one of them. The hardest in retrospect, is picking the single race that was the best. Thanks, Doug


blog.tri50states.com

Doug I hope that I can get them all done. I'm only 24 so my goal is to finish them by 30! We will see what the wife and life have in store. lol

Cycleguy:

Okay, the first check off came at age 32 and took me a little under 20 years. Your time table is a bit more aggressive. Stay after it no matter what the timeline is for you. After all, it is a bucket list. Regards, Doug