Is he though?.

So was Lance Armstrong

This is bordering on fanatical now. They have addressed THE key concern of many on here, namely that this huge effort has been missrepresented as 100 x IMs when that is clearly not the case due to the bespoke rules. They have literally done what many in the thread above suggested and devised a new name for the distance (albeit clearly too late in the game). Yet still, the approach is criticised and ulterior motives are suggested.

I agree with lots of the balanced criticism here and likewise the respect for the athletic feat, but some of this criticism is now just bizarre. I suspect even if they called it the "Exercise Cowboy's long distance swim, bike, run event" there would be criticism.

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Please explain to me why they needed to change calling the days events from a FTD to IronCowboy Distance?
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Please explain to me why they needed to change calling the days events from a FTD to IronCowboy Distance?
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Here’s how it will turn out- he will complete 100 of whatever those things are because they’re easy and he’ll continue to allow the public to think he’s doing Ironman’s.

There was past controversies with his ethics on this matter and now we’re seeing ethics controversies again.

This thing that he’s doing is only interesting if people think he’s doing Ironman’s as in, the Iron Cowboy is incredible because he’s doing 100 Ironman’s.

I am boycotting any brands that sponsor this thing and have friends who are doing the same.

If he wants to do real Ironman’s I’ll support him all the way, but don’t co-opt the name and institute ridiculously soft rules to deceive the public about your undertaking.

You say they’ve adopted a name change.

Why did they not come out and correct the record completely as in, “people have mistakenly come to believe I’m doing Ironman’s. These are not actually Ironman’s.”

You say they’ve adopted a name change.

Why did they not come out and correct the record completely as in, “people have mistakenly come to believe I’m doing Ironman’s. These are not actually Ironman’s.”

I think too many people on this site are too stuck on "I did an Ironman once, it was hard, and noone else can claim they did one unless they obide by atleast as strict rules I did".

For me, the term "ironman" does not really mean anything. All IPR's aside, and who gets to call their races what, but in the world of triathlon callig something "iron distance" is fair enough and only describes the amount of km's you are doing. Doing an "iron distance" with f.ex. drafting sure is different than doing it alone. But I still have no problem with people calling it iron distance. Some ironman-races are easy (relative to others), some are hard (the extreme ones f.ex. very popular in Europe; norseman, celtman, swissman, etc). Chattanooga has (at least had) a serioysly down-river point to point swim which in my opinon made for more of an advantage than draftable bike.

In the end, no ironman race is really very comparable to another. Courses, course accuracy, weather, all have a big part in your finishing time. Want to know if you're better than someone? Race them, in the same race! You feel the IC is "getting away with something"? Embark on the journey youself, challange him, or whatever. Sitting behind a keyboard splitting words is pretty far back on the list of respectable stuff to do, in my opinion at least. For sure, you wanna dislike his project, go right ahead. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. And I'll stick with mine for abit longer. :)

If you walk 26 miles did you do a marathon?

No. But if you run 26.2 miles, then yes. Obviously.

Yes, and then some. Is there a time element to a marathon? No. Just distance. If you walk it, then you did a very, very slow marathon.

It’s not time that’s the operative metric, it’s speed relative to effort expended running, which is why less than 1% of the population has “run” a marathon.

That's a nice definition you've invented. Maybe it will catch on someday. For now, in reality, it's still defined by distance.

That's a nice definition you've invented. Maybe it will catch on someday. For now, in reality, it's still defined by distance.

If you walk 26 miles did you do a marathon?

No.

No.

I’ll take Endurance Sports for $1000, Alex.

Answer: A sport in which the athlete walks 26.2 miles over the course of 24 hours.

Question: What is a marathon?

I’m sorry Durhamskier, the correct answer is, What is walking?