In no particular order:

- NYC Marathon

- IMC

- IMH

- Vancouver Sun Run( a 10K race with 45,000 people!)

- Canadian Ski Marathon( 100 mile 2 day ski tour)

- Vasaloppet( 90K classic xc ski race in Sweden)

- Annapurna Triathlon( in Pokhara, Nepal)

Fleck

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

This is my "must do" list....not to be confused with "must race" list.

1) Badwater Ultra

2) Roth

3) Ironman Brasil

4) Leadville 100 MTB

5) St. Croix 1/2

6) IM Canada

7) Alcatraz

8) HHH (again)

9) Chicago

10) Eagleman 1/2

If you're in the northeast,
1. the Pat Griskus olympic - one of the hardest oly. bike courses around.
2. the Pat Griskus sprint tri.

Both are flawlessly run, fun to race and eat/relax after.

I'm not affiliated with the races but they're great.

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Great things never come from comfort zones.

why is wildflower on so many lists? i've done it twice (oly) and have not been all that impressed, except by the amount of money they manage to squeeze out of so many people. right now i only do it because it attracts a decent size collegiate wave (2nd to nationals), once i'm racing age group i won't go back.

Kona

Ironman Canada

Roth

Memphis in May (done x 2)

Muskoka (done x 3)

IM Brazil

Etape du Tour

Rideau Lakes Tour (not really a race, but what the hell)

Escape from Alcatraz

IM New Zealand

mp

None are really must do, but I'd be proud if I did them.

RAAM

Western States 100

Kona

Badwater

Pacific Crest Trail (of course it's not really a race, but it'd be cool to race nonetheless)

 
Grand Columbian
Vineman
(new) Mooseman Half
Survival of Shawanagunks
IMC
IMNZ
Timberman

Barry S, you made my morning, thanks much. I'll pass along the props to the crew!
Tom -
RD, Griskus Tri's

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I don't know if I have ten, I'm still trying to figure out what local races to do. But here are some I think sound neat.

HUFF 50k (did this year)

Blue Devil Full Iron (on my 2005 calendar)

SOS (probably my A race for 06)

Norseman Extreme Triathlon

Raid Gualoise (before they ruined it)

One of those freakishly long multi day ultras

I don't have a burning desire to do Kona, the comercialism of the IMNA kinda sets wrong with me. And having said that I will probably do IMC or IMmoo at some point.

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**Note above poster works for a retailer selling bikes and related gear*

1. Mooseman 1/2 - offspring of beloved Granite Ledges

2. Timberman

3. Eagleman

4. Chicago

5. IMLP

6. Boston

7. Columbia

8. The Canadian Iron - new this year, but on the course of the 4-year old Canadian Half. As this is my iron for '05, I have to believe it is a must-do!

9. And a few I have yet to do, beyond #8 - ChesapeakemanVinemanGrandColumbianIMCanadaBlueDevil.....and on and on and on.......

I've done Maumee twice, 2004 and back about 1995. I do a few HFP races every year, good solid race promotion, Shannon and his crew do a good job, but like you say, nothing all that special about Maumee Bay.

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"It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster"

My list - all have tough bike legs (help for the swimming challenged):

Grand Columbian 1/2 IM
Whisky Dick - Oly + distance, point-to-point, Kona type winds on bike and run.
Carpenteria (Oly Distance, great venue, mostly trail run overlooking the Pacific, personal all time favorite)
IMC
IMCDA
Wildflower

"It is never too late to fix your childhood!" Tom Robbins

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Dean Wilson
http://www.anaerobiczone.com
Bicycle Protection Indoors & Out

Favorites that I've done (no order):



- Boston

- SOS

- IM LP

- Timberman

- FirmMan

- Reach the Beach Relay





Would like to do in the future:



- IM Hawaii

- Ultraman

- Badwater Ultra

- IMC (I’m doing this year)

- IM Brazil (I’m doing this year)

- Big Sur Marathon

- IM New Zealand

- Chesapeake Bay Swim

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4th St Off Road Sprint

Moab Steel Bender Xterra

Salem Spring Sprint

Utah State Games Oly

Echo Challenge Half IM

Emmett's Oly

Jordanelle Oly

Now, according to my schedule, these are MY MUST DO.

Favorite race memories:

1. Ann Arbor Triathlon. An amazing run on the Potawatomi Trail. No other race like it. (Plus, I'm the founder).

2. Waterloo Triathlon. Sandhill cranes on the bike and run. Sissy Hanshaw would feel right at home. (O.K., I'm the founder of this one too).

3. 1980 Grandma's Marathon. Did the race with my best friend, set a pr, and then partied the night away to the music of the Booze Brothers.

4. Drummond Island ROGAINE (24-hour). The course setter from hell. But you got a 15-minute credit if you ate a can of Spam or two jalapeno peppers at control #8.

5. Pikes Peak Marathon (up and down). Eight black toenails are an ever-present reminder.

6. 24-hour Bikeathon at Chrysler Proving Grounds. Towed Mike Sechrist through the opening 120 miles of his very first ultra. He went on to win RAAM and place second several times.

7. 1994 Mark Mellon SC Triathlon. I won and Karen was second overall, becoming (we think) the first ever married couple to go one-two in a triathlon. And if not the first, we were certainly the oldest (at 52 and 41 respectively). Caveat? O.K., there were just 90 people in the race.

8. 1971 4-mile road run in Grosse Pointe. First ever running race. Good news? Ran 23:50 in Chuck Taylor high-top b-ball shoes and finished sixth overall. Bad? There were only seven entrants.

9. 1984 Vic Tanny Triathlon. Got off the bike in second overall, ran 67 minutes for the 10-miles . . . and finished 20th. You could see waffle prints on my back for the next three weeks.

10. 2004 ITU World Triathlon Championship. Didn't even do the race . . . but it was the moment when Sheila Taormina reached the very top of the world in her second major sport. Think about it How many athletes have EVER scaled those heights?

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