Yeah, "50 full distance Iron triathlons 50 days and 50 locations"

She clearly has no fucking idea what she's talking about

Good for PowerDot for helping her out, though. Maybe she can get a spot on Lance's podcast when this is all done?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

This makes sense. She's not going to somehow require less support as she goes along. The way they've barely promoted this thing I doubt they'll have the forethought to involve the media that much during the event. It's not a 24 hour race. They will have time each day to replenish supplies. They should have another vehicle besides the van that can doing extraneous things during the day.

Yes, it wouldn't be 24 hour event for her, but the crew as a collective could often be on duty for periods well over 24 hours if they're driving through the night to the next state.

Of course, that's making a generous assumption that she actually makes it beyond the first week.

What about nutrition? Has she adapted to the carbohydrate demands this endeavor will require? Or is she just going to load up on creatine to muscle through this?

I hope you're not asking me. I have no idea what she has planned for her diet. I can only hope it is better than her training and preparation.

Though, whatever she does with her diet, I can't imagine the end result being significantly different.

Clearly, no one on her team is thinking about race weight

"the trick is to keep losing weight until your friends and family ask you if you've been sick. then you know you're within 10 pounds. if they start whispering to each other, wondering if you've got cancer or aids, you're within 5. when they actually do an intervention, you're at race weight"

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I have politely asked why she is doing Tulsa when OKC has course support for 140.6 already setup on that day and is only 90 miles away from where she is scheduled to be.

Because it's 140.6 miles and lots of course marshals and people around...

Where is her schedule?

And you can't draft (much). I imagine she'll have a flock of crossfit geese around her to pull her along on the bike after a while if she's doing self-supported.

And there is the potential for doping control. That's a lot of muscle and low body fat for somebody to be all natural.

Annnnd you have to show up two days ahead of time to pick up your packet.

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haha that is so true. Who said that? My mom when I visit is always like "you look skinny" and I am still about 10 lbs away. Saw her when I was at race weight and she sat me down and asked me if everything was ok in my life and how my stress levels were and why I wasn't eating. I was still 173 lbs at 6'2. NOT at all marathoner skinny

It's on her Instagram feed.

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6' 2" 173. That's always my ideal way. Not necessarily if I was intent on being super fast in triathlon but the weight I strive to stay at.

Based on the photos in this thread she is already well past intervention time. With virtually no fat reserves, I don't see how she can fuel such an endeavor assuming she is even adequately trained...which she isn't.

She mentions in comments of latest IG post she will be using a pool for swim in Atlanta. I wonder if she'll do that for many of the places. Not that it matters that much but pushing off the wall obviously helps.

You think she can do a flip-turn?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Ha! No. But neither can I. She'll still get a nice breather at the wall if she needs a rest. I wonder if she'll have to share a lane with somebody.

I won't fault her for pool swims although it's not the same as a full contact Ironman OWS. At least, we hope, she will do the full distance in a pool as opposed to using a short, poorly measured OWS.

Yep. Not the same thing but not a big deal. Unless she gets out of the pool and hops on a spin bike and then elliptical

... And will she [and her team] count lengths, laps, or yards?

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

My bet: she makes it to the first Saturday (with questionable course and dubious distances) before she has to call it as "extended driving and support duties have made it unsafe for the support crew to continue."

She'll only have to go a few days and her friends and family will still love and adore her for her beauty, courage, and strength..

This whole thread does a wonderful job encapsulating why triathlon will never be a huge sport. The amount of people who spew hate and judgement towards a person who wants to try and shine in our sport is just embarrassing. Pages and pages of negative drivel. We should be welcoming her into the family, instead the armchair douchebags of the world are busy wondering when she's going to quit or if she's ever going to start.

Damn - I'm 6'-1.5" and race at 176 lbs, and now find out I'm overweight.

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I'm closer to the feathered end of the spear than the point.

She's not trying to shine in the sport of triathlon. She's using it as a marketing ploy to promote herself and her business. It's good that she's raising money for charity and I hope all those proceeds really do go to charity but you're mistaken if she cares at all about triathlon.

Clydesdale, huh ;)

The amount of people who spew hate and judgement towards a person who wants to try and shine in our sport


You think she is doing this to shine in our sport and I think she is simply promoting herself with a side interest in raising money for orphans. Everyone here would applaud a serious attempt but she is making a mockery of the sport.

The running community would be just as upset if she said she was doing 50 marathons in 50 days and then only running 12 miles and calling it a marathon, or not training for it or essentially mocking all the people who take the sport seriously.

She can do whatever she wants and you can support her all you want but calling that hate and judgement is kind of ironic since you are doing the same to the rest of us.