Riddle Me This: 4 States Triathlon

Triathlon Forum
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in Texarkana, Texas is this Sunday. I signed up for it.

It’s called “The 4 States Triathlon.”

Here’s the situation. Texarkana is at the corner of Arkansas and Texas and Lousiana. Oklahoma and Mississippi are hundreds of miles away.

I have come to find out, I think, that the Texas people are counting their state as 2 states. Behold:

  1. Texas

  2. Louisiana

  3. Arkansas.

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= 3 States.

Right. 3 states in a Four State Triathlon. This should be called, yes, the “Three States Triathlon,” but THEY DO NOT DO THIS. It can only be because they must be counting Texas as 2 states.

I know how you Texas people are. You shouldn’t get away with this.

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OK, I’ll bite. Isn’t OK only about 40 miles from Texarkana?

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Texarkana, TX to Tom, Ok (which appears to be a quite a few miles into Oklahoma: Start: Depart Start on US-82 (North-West) 0.7 0:01 1: Bear LEFT (North) onto US-82 2.6 0:03 2: Keep RIGHT onto Ramp 0.1 < 1min 3: Bear RIGHT (North) onto Sowell Ln 0.1 < 1min 4: Take Ramp (LEFT) onto US-59 (US-59) 0.3 < 1min 5: Take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-30 (I-30 / Dallas) 18.3 0:19 6: At exit 201, turn RIGHT onto Ramp (TX-8 / New Boston) 0.3 < 1min 7: Turn RIGHT (North) onto SR-8 6.7 0:08 Entering Arkansas 8: Road name changes to SR-41 9.1 0:11 9: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-32 1.9 0:03 10: Turn LEFT (West) onto SR-108 0.6 0:01 11: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-32 0.2 0:01 12: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-32 2.3 0:04 13: Keep STRAIGHT onto SR-32 2.7 0:04 Entering Oklahoma 14: Road name changes to SR-3 5.2 0:09 15: Turn RIGHT to stay on SR-3 0.5 0:01 End: Arrive End < 0.1 < 1min Total Route **51.4 mi ** 1 hr 6 mins

Now who should I bill for this???

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You maybe right.

Let me qualify my: “hundreds of miles” to Oklahoma, to “hundreds of miles” to anywhere were life exists in Oklahoma.

Its a small sprint. Usually on these races around the country which call themselves, “Four States,” there’s a bike ride going through four states. I haven’t seen this course, but I thought the bike course would go through “Four States,” down there, like a Texan would draw this up and count it. And since its Texas people probably doing it, it would be something like: Start In Texas, go through Lousiana, up through Arkansas, back to Texas, on the bike leg.

To a Texan, that’s 4 states. Texas–>Lousiana–>Arkansas—>Texas.

See, this is how Texas people think.

Hey, I’m just kidding.

Time to go…

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We are big enough to be 2 or even 3 states…maybe even 4 by some definitions.

The problem isn’t the size…but the value.

Go T-Wolves!