She won't go 50/50/50 but she has made 50 pages on slowtwitch! Surely that is worthy of a donation to orphan Annie.

Thats funny! 50 pages on Slowtwitch! I though only Lionel Sanders was capable of such feats.

Her run pace seems to be ok in her training. I presume the slower ones are hikes/walks.She is definitely putting in ironman volume for the run by the look of it.

That’s because this has nothing to do with raising awareness or money for orphans-it’s solely a tactic to increase her profile....and unfortunately it seems to be working.

Shitloads.

There have been numerous editions of the Trans Europe and Trans America Footraces, and one of Trans Australia. These races involve average daily stage distances of around 40 to 45 miles. The races are up to about 9 or 10 weeks long and cover around 3000 miles.

Also the annual Sri Chinmoy 3100 Mile in New York has a 52 day cut-off. The race record is nearly 3 marathons/day pace.

There's nothing new with these type of events. The first LA to New York race was held in 1928 and attracted around 200 runners with around a quarter of them finishing. Over 3400 miles in 84 days at 40 miles/day. It attracted national interest and was tagged "The Bunyon Derby" by the newspapers. Some runners even backed up for the second edition of the race in 1929, barely 9 months later.

George Perdon was knocking an average of 100 km (62 miles) a day when he was chasing Tony Rafferty in what was essentially a match race to be the first person to run across Australia in the early '70s. Despite having a start of about a week, Rafferty was caught and passed by Perdon. Perdon covered almost 3000 miles in just 47 days, finishing in Sydney a day ahead of his rival.

So Dean K's 1310 miles of running in 50 days was not so extraordinary from an athletic perspective among ultramarathon performances. It was, however, a standout logistically with covering the 50 states and also very impressive on the media and publicity front.

No I'm all for laughing at my self. If you can't laugh at yourself than who can you. Just the way you framed that statement made me think maybe you were just a TT guy or something else.

I think this is a big part of the answer about why people care. It seems so easy for defenders of outlandish endeavours to say ‘why do you care? It’s not hurting anyone?’ But it devalues the achievements of others.

When someone who has never done an IM waltzes in and boldly claims they’re doing 50 in 50, it’s thumbing their nose at those who actually do an IM and know how hard it is. Calling her on it isn’t being an asshole, it’s saying ‘how about you have some respect for this event’? Whether it’s for charity or not, doesn’t change that fact

Not that I’m on her side but I bet most of us here can walk in and do IMAZ under the time cut off.

Back to to the subject - I’m with everyone she just is using it as a publicity stunt.

"Darren Sproles is 5-foot-6, I'M 5-foot-6. I could return 50 punts for the Eagles, and do it for charity. How hard could it be?"

Like that?

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

The casual “I ran 230 miles in 3 days around Haiti” with no proof sort of chaps my arse. That’s a monumental achievement.

Haiti is not cool, and can be pretty humid per google. The roads are likely bad, or at least not optimal. She ran 370km in 3 days, 123/day or so? And isn’t an ultra runner?

No strava, we are just supposed to accept this? People make outlandish claims and are called to task for it. Occam’s razor says a crossfitty, heavy, non-ultra runner is not doing what she said she did or at least it cannot be accepted without proof.

Once she says something like this, you have to doubt most things she says.

What I don’t doubt is that she would like to help the orphanage, which is laudable, but doing it in a dishonest fashion is sort of sad.

She isn’t doing what she says she is doing, yet she is taking credit for doing it. If you were doing interviews for national publications like ESPNw and saying you are doing 50 IM in 50 days, knowing you aren’t going to actually do it and have no workable plan to do so, wouldn’t you feel guilty?

Case 1: She really thinks she is going to do it, doesn’t really understand the logistics don’t allow it based on her plans, etc etc - she is just dumb (I doubt this), doesn’t understand you aren’t strength trainig 4 times a week etc.

Case 2: She knows she isn’t but doesn’t care because she will get IG followers and potentially some money for the orphanage?

Which is more likely?

Interesting summary, cheers. I just did the front page google search and it was all about DK so wasn’t sure.

We had the Sydney to Melbourne ultra that got a lot of publicity in years gone by. Especially when the old farmer Cliff Young rocked up in Wellington (gum) boots.

That's the one which is basically "run around the block a bunch of times" On streets & sidewalks?

https://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/

That's GOTTA suck

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

Not to side track, but what has *gotta* suck is participating in an event that is 52 days long and coming in second by *20 minutes* :

Probably. But can we do it 50 days in a row?

I’d like the odds of the average ST’er completing multiple IMAZ’s in a row vs her chances.

PS - I just completed 100 IM’s in 100 days, solo.
I have zero proof, no GPS or Strava files, nada.
Hell, I did it in 100 different COUNTRIES to boot!
Yeah, that’s it! That’s the ticket!
100 IM’s, 100 days, 100 countries.

I did it all for charity, so it’s all good - and nobody will question the validity of any of these statements.

Please alert Reebok and Good Morning America ASAP.

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float , hammer , and jog

She understands the logistics and it certainly bothers me that she’s not correcting espn or USA Today that it’s 50 IMs in 51+ days. This bothers me less but it sounds like she’s going to be doing a lot of the swimming in pools.

WTF.....

I watched the Iron Cowboy documentary yesterday on Amazon - and came away from it with 2 take aways.

1. It can be really hard to watch sometimes, especially when he starts to break down at around day 20 and has a fullon psychotic episode on his bike.
2. Ashley Horner is kidding herself and/or is delusional - assuming that she is serious.

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Next races on the schedule: none at the moment

Where are you all getting information on this effort?

• Blogs?
• Instagram?
• Facebook?
• Other social media?

Can someone post a comprehensive listing of this effort so that we can track it the best we possibly can?

Some on her instagram account. Triathlon magazine listed cities where she’s racing. I don’t know about tracking once she starts.

Okay, so there is a list of where she is going to be doing these things. Is this list so that people can join and swim/bike/run with her along these distances?

If people really want to make sure these are getting done, the best thing that can be done is have an athlete do it along side of her and track everything on their Garmin watch to make sure it is legit.

The swim would be easy...just watch the pool swim or paddle along in a kayak. Ride along on the bike. Ride along on the run...or run it.

I did see today she only called it women of Iron 50 IM triathlons and after today 49! Didn’t use the 50/50 tagline.

So I guess it’s starting today/tonight?

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

That is a little....okay...a lot extreme

But that is also something that IC did now that I remember, was that his team created 50 different Facebook links to each IM with all the details that he did, inviting the public to show up to run the last mile(?) with him, etc.

As been noted several times in this thread, he was 100% transparent with his racing endeavors, Ashley is not.

I think you scammed everyone with your charity. And just for the f___ of it I think you are a doper as well. There, we both made completely unsubstantiated claims. Good times.

Except I can prove that I never received a penny from the donations to the charity, and I can prove I am a Board member, and I can prove I volunteered there for a year, and I can prove I have given my time and money and continue to do so. I didn't do the kind of thing she tried, I simply did a solo bike tour around the world without any mileage or speed claims along the way. I took my time which is exactly what was written on my website.

As for doping, if you saw me and any of my athletic results, that would be proof enough. :)