I love it!

I really hope you paid for the official race photos you used!!

Awesome idea and training day--can't say I've ever done it but 70.3 sounds reasonable...

Very nice, very cool to have around 8 or so tri folks involved!!! I've done lots of half-iron training days, usually a 5000 yd sw/60 mi bk/14 mi run, but usually just me by myself, sometimes with 1 training partner. Longest session/weekend to date has been a 6000 yd sw/90 mi bk/20 mi run on Sat, followed by 5000 sw/50 bk/12 run on Sun. Never have done the full 112/26.2 in one day though:)

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

I highly recommend doing one yourself before shelling out tons of money just to see if you can finish. Pay for a race when you have a time goal. These races / training days are enjoyable. Normally I stop at a brunch place between each leg, but its harder with a group.

Awesome.

Amazing!

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Cool :-)

Haha, amazing.

Very nice. I love it.

In June of 2006 I did my first two triathlons, both Olympic distance. The next month I went to Lake Placid to be a volunteer at the 140.6. The day before the race I did one loop each of the swim, bike , & run with out any outside help (I carried my own nutrition). Based on this experience I then felt that I could go the distance in an actual race. I like the idea of what you have done and I wish that more people would put on these types of small personal events without all the money, rules, & parking hassles. Tim

The cost of the race was free, but Active.com still found a way to charge $59.99 per racer.

Great job, looks like a ton of fun. I loved this little quip;

And her finish time. Listen up Mark from HITS, a finish clock is cheap and EVERYONE wants this type of photo:

How right you are, sometimes the little things that make races fun and enjoyable..

haha.

Some other quick notes I forgot to mention. It helps to be a part of tri club! (san diego triathlon club). I recruited volunteers and racers from there. 25 signed up, 12 people actually showed up (no fear of loss of entry fee, no pressure to come). Kind of screwed us on catering, so we have a lot of left overs.

Also, was a good ego check for wife, thinking she would do 11ish. I told her to delay caterer for later, but no budge


Here is a video one of our participants made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk7SUly6pxg

chapeau

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Nice that must have been an awesome experience.

Next to the guy asking ST if he'd KQ and make it (cant remember his name), this is a kick ass idea.

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At 1:00 on the video... man, what a draft fest! ;)

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Long Chile was a silly place.

Looked awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Love it. Nice!

Totally awesome awesomeness! Congrats to you and your wife.

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Awesome event.

You give out finisher's tees?

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Super cool. What kind of tat did she get?

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Just a little curious about your wife... Is she single?

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Totally awesome!!! Is it too early in the thread to mention you have a hot wife? If it is, I won't mention how hot she is. Congrats on a well ran race, and possibly you can expand on it next year. Congrats to your (hot) wife for being the only one to complete the full distance.

You know the first couple years of Ironman were about the same kind of race? Lets hope the Unofficial Man can stay the same forever. Mom and Pop rule as far as I am concerned.

Awesome! Made me laugh.
medals could be washers on fishing line!

Love this! My run club friends and I put on a spoof of the Boston Marathon called Notsob Nohtaram, slogan: Everything Boston but Backward. It allowed only people who had never qualified for Boston, and bandits. We created a fabric and PVC bus to take people from our staging area down to to the start (kind of Flintstones style, where people held up the sides and walked it down.) we got more than 60 people crammed in there. We didn't have a CitGo sign, instead it was a GoSit sign. No screaming co-eds, instead I inflated dozens of surgical gloves and stapled them to long poles for a high-five station. We had bibs and chips -- lobster bibs and tortilla chips. And so on. Oh, it was 26.2 kilometers, still a substantial distance.

I've also put on a couple of 12-hour runs around Pasadena's Rose Bowl. The first one we did was in support of a friend who was training for Badwater. It was on the fall equinox, Sept. 21, so we started at dawn and finished at dusk. It turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year. I managed 41 miles over 12 hours, our friend did double marathon. The next one we did on the winter solstice, much cooler and a lot of us topped 50 miles in 12 hours.

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These events could take off in popularity!!

Will you sue if others use the same branding?

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I laughed.

Good stuff, did something similar years ago with a group of friends that we called FrugalMan where we mapped out a half-IM course from Walden Pond. I love stuff like this and EpicMan where it's just a group of people getting together and having at the course just for the fun of it.

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That is awesome!

Whenever I go for a run on the C&O canal I think about putting on a one man 140.6 ending in DC.

Great idea and great execution! :-)

I never did anything remotely resembling long-course triathlon racing, but for a couple of years now I have been organizing a 10.2 Km trail run (>300m elevation). The run course happens to run from my place of work to my home, conveniently :-)
The rules are simple: we all start together, first person at my house is winner. There's a "consensus course" marked by me, but if you think you have figured out a better course, you're free to take that. Free beer and BBQ for all at the finish.
Started out as a bet between me and a friend/colleague, others joined in, and meanwhile it's a fixed date each year. Friends and colleagues who would otherwise never entertain the thought of taking part in any kind of race are actually motivated to get off the couch and train for this event. And above all, it's loads of fun.

Cheers,
malte

We're on year 10 of doing the same thing annually in Texas. If you want to pay an entry fee, you can donate to the March of Dimes. http://www.zentriathlon.com/ironbaby/

You can do any distance you want. Great for a free challenge.

We've had a microbrew sponsor the last few years, so free ale and pizza at the finish line. Will be in early November this year. Let me know if you want to come.

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Awesome! I think the sport actually started with events like this.

So someone on reddit replied to me about another underground 140.6 ... http://teammangoraces.com/...nster_triathlon.html

Perhaps - we can get the lance vs macca challenge to take place there?