Leadville

Still to Do:

Boston
Kona
Comrades
A 100 mile trail race (Western states or Leadville...)
International IM

I'm crossing one off this weekend - Solo 24 hour MTB race at Moab

I've completed 3 Ultras, 3 IM's, a handful of double centuries, a couple dozen marathons...but I figure anything
I've done must not be all that hard and I'm much more interested in what would challenge me going forward.

Depending how long I ride this weekend - I think the 24 hour solo could put me deeper into the hurt locker than anything
so far. Riding past my camper every 2 hours makes for an easy bailout... so I'm not sure how hard I'll actually make it.

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" I take my gear out of my car and put my bike together. Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of of their lives shocks me. "
(opening lines from Tim Krabbe's The Rider , 1978

Do the Ford Ironman Triathlon World Championships again.

Do a HALO jump on oxygen from above 15,000 feet.

Other stuff....

I'd like to do some more climbing but I don't like being above 22,000 feet- you just feel too crummy up there.

Not really endurance oriented but I'd like to dive with whale sharks, and I'd like to see a tiger shark and a white shark in person prefereably without a cage.

I'd also like to visit the Okavango Delta after having been to the Ngorongoro Crater.

I'd also like to have a nice lunch with hummous, good bread, a nice smoothie and an excellent salad along with a shish tawook and rice at a sidewalk cafe in downtown Baghdad without worrying about being safe.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

For all of you who have RAAM on your bucket list, check out the Ranonneurs USA website at http://www.rusa.org/ And also the Ultramarathon Cycling Associantion at http://www.ultracycling.com/
Randonneurs USA organizes brevets (rides) of 200, 300, 400 and 600km. And then there are additional randonnees of 1200km except in years when Paris-Brest-Paris is held. (Every four years. Next in 2011.) The 1200km randonnees can be used as qualifiers for RAAM For all of you Ironmen/women, you'll be more than challenged completing a 1200km randonnee within the RAAM qualifying time.

1200km randonees are no longer RAAM Qualifiers as of last year.
"However, prospective racers who have completed one or more 1200K randonees are encouraged to petition the RAAM RD to race solo RAAM." http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/....php?N_webcat_id=229


Bucket List
Half-Iron
Full Iron
Qualify for Kona
Furnace Creek 508
RAAM Solo Finisher

Qualify for Kona - missed by 1 place in 2007 and 2 places this year, no roll down both of these years in my AG
50 mile ultra marathon
50K ski marathon - thats my goal for this winter

Surprised at the couple Norseman's on here. I want no part of that.

Mine:

Just a sub 3 hr marathon and finish at Kona. Not too much to ask.

I'd like to bike across the USA, west-to-east, ocean-to-ocean. I'd also like to do something in Europe, maybe central spain, over teh pyrennes into France, then over the ALps into Italy or Switzerland.

I'd like to run the NY marathon, perhaps Boston. I've qualifed for both (NY gets significantly easier once you're 40!), just haven't done them. Kind of a logistics thing.

Definitely a lot of "Ooh, that sounds cool" races. I'll add running a sub 3:10:59 mary to mine to qualify for Boston.

Already done:

One IM (CONUS)

Three marathons in three states

Looks like I really need to get started...

Leadville MTB

Kona - by any means Qualifying preferred but that would mean no ice cream....;-(

Ultraman Canada

Western States 100

And the mother of all mothers in my book ( I don't like the extreme heat ) Badwater

And become a good long distance runner, before it's too late. ( stopping ice cream would help )

  

1. Win Boston Marathon with new AR
2. Win RAAM riding a unicycle backwards.
3. Grand Slam of Ultra in the same season, sub 16 in each race.
4. Win Green, Yellow and Polka dots at the Tour.
5. Put up a new route on K2
6. Climb Denali in winter wearing nothing but a Speedo.
7. Swim across the Arctic Ocean sans wetsuit.


I might do the 50K Loppet in Lake Placid this year just for fun.

Tom - the Iraq restaurant in the Souq in Doha, Qatar has great middle eastern food and it is much safer! buddy

Qualify for Kona.

Do an IM in a really cool place like Lanzarote or Nice.

1 hour 40K TT.

Upgrading to cat2 road cycling (I'm cat4 at the moment, and not a particularly good one)
Qualifying for Kona
Running a sub 3 marathon
Respectably running the crater lake marathon
Probably something similar to the Canadian ski marathon.
Eco challenge
And not really endurance per se, but rock climbing mid 5.12 grade

Some variety there and a few pipe dreams (eco challenge). Really I'd just like to try adv racing and some forms of competitive xc skiing, don't know a huge amount about either at the moment tho.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ~Gandalf

I'd love to be able to climb at a 5.12 level. Hell, I wouldn't care if it was 5.12 sport. The best I was able to do was 5.10c sport and 5.8 trad.

I could never bring myself to trust those friggin' cams...

Best on-site I've ever done is 10.b sport on-site and 8+ trad clean (on a route that I took my first trad whip the year before, oops). Took close a year and a half off climbing that just ended recently now that I live near a rock gym and crags again.

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. ~Gandalf

Qualify for Kona (probably the toughest)
Leadville 100
Ride Alp d'Huez
Sub 2:15 Olympic
Sub 19 5k
New York or Boston Marathon
Go to North or South Pole

Boston Marathon

New York Marathon

London Marathon

Kona Ironman

Kona - Ultra Ironman

Canada - Ultra Ironman

Badwater Ultra

RAAM

Western States 100

There's a lot more, but I'd be a good half hour typing this out.

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"Chrissie wins because she trains really f'ing hard and races really f'ing hard and was blessed with a huge f'ing motor" Jordan Rapp

Crossing another one off the my list next May...Grand Canyon Rim to Rim to Rim

Bucket List (still evolving)
- Boston Marathon - Check
- All the Marathon Majors (Chicago (x), NYC, London, Berlin, Boston(x))
- 2:45 Marathon
- Sub 10 IM - Check
- Qualify & Finish for Kona - Check
- Kona in every age group moving forward
- Grand Canyon RtRtR - Pending
- 50 Miler - Check
- 100 Miler
- Western States
- Leadville
- Badwater

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Ride it like I stole it.

Hike the AT sub 100 days.

Bag all CO 14ers.

Bike, Sub 1 hour WhiteFace Mtn. (in NY)

Give a chick 9+ orgasms in an hour.


(*above*, not necessarily in the given order)

most of my bucket list has been covered on here already, but another that i don't believe was mentioned yet:
i'd really like to ride an entire tour de france course.

please keep posting so i can find out about more awesome races that i need to add!

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>if you can't win, make the guy ahead of you break the record

Climb Kilinmanjaro (sp?) before the snow melts

Qualify for Kona

Be a Kona finisher is the top of my bucket list.


Did this one. Not sure where a civilian can do this. Besides, the civilian gear is much better, if you've got the money...and you're not carrying weapons. Oh, and you might want to check out HAHO jumps, too. They can be a ton of fun.


And...

Wildflower. Right next to finishing Kona.
Escape from Alcatraz...but the wife is terrified of the shark stories....made me promise not to do that one.
Abu Dhahbi Long Course
St Croix & The Beast
SavageMan & The Wall (& the brick!)


But that's all a long ways away....still training for the Buffalo Springs 70.3

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Punching cockroaches from day 1.

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Admittedly, my endurance list is less agressive than some of you. My bucket list of events has things I "think" I'll enjoy rather than a random # of things like 50 marathons/50 states. I started to do something like that but I realized it wasn't as enjoyable of a process as I might have hoped.

Marathon - check
Pikes Peak Marathon - check
Ironman race - check
Kona (don't care if by qualifying or lottery) - This is the goal I've had the longest.
Boston Marathon by qualifying
Rim to Rim to Rim in Grand Canyon (looooove the GC)
Norseman (I wish I'd never seen the video cuz that's what hooked me)
Cycle through as many TDF climbs as possible in two weeks
Go to Everest base camp (not going up)
24-hour bike race
100-mile running race
Canadian Death Race
Hardest one - be able to do these things when I'm 60 and 70 and...

Sarge

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"it's also a personal choice to remain ignorant" - Slowman