Ok, there have been a lot of posts about how little people train for IM, sort along the line of, “For IMNZ, my peak week for swimming was taking a shower” For people with these short training schedules, did you already have a huge base? How enjoyable was the race, i.e. did you do it in an ok time, but suffer the whole way?
Lot of people like to cast a negative spin on things however they can. Be it that they will try and make you feel guilty for your money or time expenditure. In this case its in the form of time. In other cases there is a thread here on slowtwitch that discusses money. If you can get away with training 5 hours a week and do a 12 hour ironman great. Allot of those people that poke fun at things like hours spent training are riding around on shimano 105 endup DNFing ironman races. Their is a whole crew of them on another forum that I use to be on that ridicule others for the cost of their equipment or putting in training hours. The reality of the matter is that most of them end up DNFing due to lack of training or their equipment falling apart on the course. Yet they find it within themselves to ridicule others. Now thats a real loser! Go figure!?!?