Agreed.

I've been following this thread with an interest in someone doing something that is physically very difficult. But I can arrive at no other conclusion than to say that he is a dishonest person, intentionally misleading people who don't know better.

He is not doing an Ironman every day. He did not do a Deca. He simply is not doing these things.

I'm a believer in the importance of being accurate and honest about our athletic achievements. If anyone asks me if I have run a marathon the answer is no. If they ask if I have ever run an ultra, the answer is no. I reserve the right to honestly tell them that "during Covid I organized and did a solo 50k run for charity." But that does not mean that I ran a "marathon" or a real "ultra" event.

He could, similarly, say that he is "covering 140.6 miles per day by swimming, biking and running distances that correspond to a triathlon, but with modified rules to make it feasible" and I would respect it. But when you flat out lie (and he is lying at this point), I'm out.

Well... IC just claimed in an IG post "This is what a Deca looks like..." after completing #10.

Er... not really.

I think what’s bothersome about James is that he’s intentionally misleading the general public about his attempt. He uses the word Iron in his name. He posts and says that he’s doing Ironman length triathlons. He wants people to believe he’s doing Ironman’s when he knows full well that he’s not. And he knows the general public doesn’t have the time to fact check him. The guy that ran with him yesterday said that he’s doing an Ironman with James. That will be shared and spread the lie. I’m sure that even though James was tagged in the post he’s not going to correct the guy because he wants people to think he’s doing Ironman’s. He makes money off that falsehood.

Here’s the post:

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Today James Lawerence aka the Iron Cowboy really made my day.
My wife and I have tried to find him along the Murdock in the evenings as he finishes his DAILY Iron Man. He has always smiled and been gracious but I still tend to get tongue Tied when we see him. Today he noticed I was setting up the phone to get a picture and he jumped in. Being around him there is a palpable energy and confidence as he conquers the impossible yet again. Crazy awesome! What is your impossible — go get after it!”

I am being a fan of his daily 16 hrs training days and want to give him a heroical pat on the back for his ICman100/100 as it is kind of an interesting human feat of persistence, organization and exercise.

But then he undermines himself making claims that are outright lies (the part of your post in bold above). I am fan of his persistence and focus and a hater of his level of honesty. I have to simultaneously decouple the two sentiments that co exist in my brain. It is generally something that I am good at in all kinds of aspects of life and I don't wholistically hate a person for trangressions in one area of their life when the other part of their life they may be doing something good/virtuous/productive. I'd rather focus on the things that someone does well and support that and beat on them for what they do badly.

Well... IC just claimed in an IG post "This is what a Deca looks like..." after completing #10.

Er... not really.

A basketball rim diameter is 10 inches. You can’t use a 12 inch diameter rim, make a thousand baskets in a row and then tell the world you made a thousand free throws. They’re not free throws and you can’t make it so with fine print that says “I define a free throw as using a 12 inch diameter rim.”

Hahaha you know what I meant...

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Yeah but nobody outside of a few of us will give a shit and correct him and those who do correct him will get slammed for it..Been there done that.The modern world is all about blurring the lines for a feel good story and we see it every day in the mainstream media.
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Is there any proof that he is actually a cowboy?

And this is the issue, to your point he just plastered all over his IG and facebook that he finished a deca ironman. When in reality he didnt.

Nobody disagrees that its his event or that these are his rules, people are pissed because because he then claims to do something with rule changes to make it easier. And while its his life and doesnt affect me, it also doesnt mean that i cant call him out on it. In the same way that someone who goes out and runs 21 miles and calls it a marathon would get called out.

And just to put things into perspective, based on the ICs “finishing times” for his “deca” he would have come in 4th or 5th place out of 6 people at the last deca i raced. And this is comparing to peoples times who raced with no drafting under stringent rules. 4th or 5th place out of 6 people at an event that none of the true top racers from around the world attended.

him claiming a deca is like a guy Everesting and saying he climbed Everest.

The lack of degradation of the swim times (which he can't hide from) suggest that he's arriving to each day in roughly the same state of fatigue and not building a recovery hole.

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Yeah but nobody outside of a few of us will give a shit and correct him and those who do correct him will get slammed for it..Been there done that.The modern world is all about blurring the lines for a feel good story and we see it every day in the mainstream media.
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That might be a little misleading since apparently he's pretty rigidly doing 100's leaving on the 2:00 - hard to know if his rest interval is holding steady (standing in the shallow end for 20 sec every 100?) or if that is deteriorating. He can hide...for a while.

(I guess that works for him but it seems like if one can swim comfortably at whatever truly steady state of effort, longer intervals (not only cutting out excess rest but yielding a higher number of fluid turns instead of full on stop/start every 100) could yield some decent time gains. He must need the recovery from the intervals? Which means he's pretty slow/inefficient...or he thinks the time gains aren't worth it, either of which is fine, but it really seems like even loafing at 5 sec slower per hundred but doing, say, 400's would gain minutes. Maybe his form is such that there's no loafing to be had (he'd stall out) but no faster speed available either?