Does this qualify him for Kona? :)

Dev, thanks for speaking for all of ST, which you don't, although you claimed you do. My post wasn't hit and run, I've been on ST for a loooong time, not prolific, but my posting history - most of it positive - speaks for itself. Second, please don't equate wanting to share a position on an issue with hate. Hate is a harsh word which I have never, ever used, and wouldn't use with you, regardless of issue, as I respect you from a distance. That's not cool.

Monty, to your point, again, not to hit and run, I just didn't relish the idea of bringing the 'prediction' thread into the 'progress' thread, so I was simply trying to state my position, pure and simple, without 48 pages of who-did-what or is-this-valid, which is why I posted it in the progress thread, rather than the prediction thread. More than glad to chat with anyone on any of the points shared, The majority of my 'trap' as you mention comes from the facts that the progress thread had 366 posts, most of them factual, and a 'prediction' thread with 1500+ posts, many of them opinions without fact, and displaying the nitpickiness, crankiness, disbelief, anger (did you see the guy that called the feds on his tax status) that I shared. I stand by that. Maybe we see what a majority on ST is differently. I don't think Dan would. But I chose my words, and carefully, because I knew I'd spend time not hit-and-running them, but articulating more about my position. So be it.

And it doesn't change any part of how amazing IC was / is. That was special, regardless of rules and IronMan.

It's legit the guy is a beast!!!

I can't wait to see 50 M-Dot tattoos all up and down both legs.

I can only notice that the 'prediction' thread has fallen off the 1st page of ST. Hmmm.

I've held off sharing my perspective on IC's 50/50/50 attempt...but want to weigh in once, and only once. Here are my takeaways:

- What IC's done is incredible, from a physical and logistical standpoint. It's up there with any feat of human endurance you can find, short of hitting the South Pole, Lewis and Clark, et. al. When all the haters are footnotes and ST is dead, he's going to be mentioned in the same breath as some of the most amazing endurance athletes ever.

Plenty?

"To date, in the previous 18 years there have been 37 people who have conquered the distance." --The website you just referenced.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't give a crap about the Slowtwitch echo chamber. You'll notice that he and his crew are heavily into social media: official facebook account, facebook events for each of his 50 days, instagram, twitter. But, they have not bothered with slowtwitch, the dominant triathlon-specific social media site. Slowtwitch forums a vertical-specific social media site, but it is dying a slow death, and the fact that this guy and his team, who are very into social media and using social media to communicate and market, have not bothered with slowtwitch is telling. He doesn't care about opinion or approval of the die-hard triathlon community that make up slowtwitch and he has bypassed it altogether.

I hardly ever bother to drop by anymore. Sometimes slowtwitch is a wonderful resource, but more and more frequently it has all the wit and usefulness of the Youtube comment section.

I only gave one race as an example, choosing a long standing event in NYC that I thought many on a US based website might have heard about. Plenty of other stand-out performances in multi-day ultra races held around the world each year.

Some impressive running in the TDF on Foot happening at the moment as well. Or do you want me to go way back to the 1800s when guys first broke 600 miles and 1000 km in the standard 6 day race?

What IC has done is unusual and unprecedented, but that doesn't automatically make it incomparable from an athletic perspective.