Poll - Double Century and IM OR 50-mile run

Triathlon Forum
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I’m giving a presentation with another endurance junkie, and we’re trying to find out how common EITHER of the following are:

  1. Completing a Double Century AND an Ironman (not necessarily in the same year);

OR

  1. Completing a Double Century AND a 50-mile run (again, not necessarily in the same year).

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Steve

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6x DC
3 x Ultra
3 x IM

I would rate the Ultra as hardest/ most painful.

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I’ve done all of the above. IMO, the 50 mile run community is smaller than the IM triathlon community. Double century is probably somewhere in between.

As for which is the more difficult event, it really depends on how much you’ve trained and how fast you plan on going. The training commitment to do a 10 hr IM is the most time consuming but the average joe doesn’t know a 10 hr IM from a 17 hr IM (and doesn’t care).

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How common? Not very. But pretty much anyone who does one of those could do (at some level), and, I think, enjoy (at some level) either of the other 2 (modulo the swim requirement for an IM). In my experience they’re all three about equal (more or less, depending on specific preparation and goals) in basic physical difficulty. Definitely slightly different personality populations, and different mindsets needed for each. Double riders and ultrarunners seem more closely aligned personality wise than either are with at least the current crop of Ironman triathletes. If you’re trying to collect actual anecdotal data, I’ve done…6 doubles, 6 IMs, 6 50’s (and 3 100s), along with a bunch of 50Ks and non competitive centuries, spread over about 20 years, so I guess I have been attracted to them all equally, at different times.

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I’m giving a presentation with another endurance junkie, and we’re trying to find out how common EITHER of the following are:

  1. Completing a Double Century AND an Ironman (not necessarily in the same year);

OR

  1. Completing a Double Century AND a 50-mile run (again, not necessarily in the same year).

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Steve

How common they are depends on who you hang out with.For a bunch of people I know.

#1…These events are used as training
#2…These distances are done in the same race

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2 IMs
4 DCs (one the week following an IM…which was a bad idea)
Never done an ultra run or double/triple IM, but I’m looking to do one of them next year.
Furnace Creek 508

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Thank you for all the posts. The info will help in our presentation.

Steve