Meanwhile in Australia, Josh Amberger won the swim at a chilly Challenge Shepparton.

And NBC aired a recap of an October 11 baseball game, interspersing inspiring stories of regular people who play softball.

Aussie Luke Bell cruised the swim at Ballarat 70.3, saying, "Conditions weren't bad, maybe a little bumpy at times."

While back in Arizona, ironman officials promised "...we're serious about breaking up the draft packs this year."

Rappstar was in the lead for a long time, but eventually slowed as he carried a display for World Bicycle Relief.

And the border patrol chased down Allen and Dave when they tried to cut the course in their weekly ironwar re-enactment.

Rock & Roll Vegas, reeling from lawsuits and short of cash, cut the "bands every mile" and simply went with a 2/3 scale statue of David Hasselhoff at the finish.

Annoying everyone who camped out overnight, Rinny used her All World Athlete medal to cut the registration line for IMAZ. And then claimed a second spot by signing up her husband as well.

Tim O'Donnell's acceptance of outside assistance backfired when his ride detoured over the Rockies.

If you ever stop this thread I will find you and I will kill you.

Just as seriously, this is frickin amazing.

These are awesome

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"It's nice to be great, but far greater to be nice"

Holy fuck this is awesome.

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Long Chile was a silly place.

In an internet world full of mediocre and half assed "professionals", along comes really high quality work like this just to entertain the Tri-nuts. Funny, intelligent and technically excellent. Thanks for a lift that all the Twitchers can appreciate. Just outstanding.

You're funnier than our mayor!

Thanks! The TO picture was pretty easy because I had this amazing picture to work with. The eagle was just a natural fit.



The original photo was by Eric Wynn, who does awesome work. Because parody, editorial content, and social critique enjoys broad exemptions from US copyright law, I generally don't credit the sources of my mash-ups (and I'm not sure people would want their names associated with them anyway...). But this was such a great shot, Eric definitely needs recognition for it. Check out his site.

X-ray photo imaging revealed the sponsor logo hidden on Brent McMahon's bike. Dropping that sponsor correlated with him dropping to race weight and winning IMAZ.

 

Lance tried and failed at the Chocolate Milk Mile, resulting in a horrific accident with Bono.

This thread is becoming as epic at the Hottie thread!

Athletes are settling into the off-season in various places around the globe. Julie Dibens is snow biking in Boulder.

Conrad Stoltz is swimming in South Africa.

I would hope Lance would vomit on Apolo!

With nowhere to reenact the ironwar, Mark and Dave went to Buffalo for a snow-shoveling contest. Dave slipped on the ice 6 times.

We learned that Jordan Rapp donates bikes to World Bicycle Relief so that he'll have people to draft off when he trains in Tanzania.

[In all seriousness, this is an awesome cause and a great organization. Everyone deserves a bike. You can donate one here for only $134]