What tri related thing would you buy/build/create

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Suppose you had a ridiculous amount of money to spend on some triathlon related thing. What would you do?

I would make a running track behind my house (this is assuming that I am rich enough to have a house with a big yard, of course). It would be 1 mile in circumference, gravel/soft surface, shaded, with some lights for late (or early) workouts. Inside the track I would build a large pool, probably 100x100 meters, 5-10 feet deep. I would get some sort of wave/current machine with a variety of different settings, so that I could simulate any open water condition I want. The machine would be built into the pool, not an attachment. It would all be controlled by an electronic pad, one pool-side and one in the house. And it would have a secure cover that could retract out of the pool wall when it wasn’t in use. That would be cool.

What would you do?

-Colin

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I think you’ve pretty much covered the buy/build create options so I guess I’d hire eveyone/thing I needed to just head out the door and see how far I got. there’s an event called the Enduroman or someit in the UK where you run from the centre of London to the coast at Dover, swim the English hannel and then bike to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. I think only 3 people have done it in one go but I’ve often thought that if you did everything in stages how far you could get - why stop at Paris? why not bike the TdF course in reverse (which’d then get you to another country) and just keep going Forest Gump style?

Back when I had time and (access to someone else’s) money I came up with this as a prototype - happy days:

www.runacrosscuba.co.uk

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Years ago, I saw someone training in his 1 lane pool of 50m length in his garden !!

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Hmmm, a magnetic bearing disk wheel, yeah that’d be cool

Or on the behind the house thing:

I’d like a nice deserted white sand beach (okay if some topless girls sneak on that’s fine as well) with a wave control switch, no sharks and coconut trees with no coconuts. And toss a couple of bouys out there at 500 and 1000m. Dolphins would swim all over the place and give you a ride in after your last trip out to the far bouy. No, scratch that, mermaids not dolphins.

And then along this looooooooooooong beach a nice super smooth paved cycling road which always had a tailwind and even included some 500+foot climbs or so up cliffs overlooking the beach. And steep twisty downhills with high banked corners! A bunch of training buddies would just sort of “exist” on the course 24 hrs a day including a couple of hot pro female cyclists. And the “pavement” would really be this rubber stuff that didn’t give road rash or hurt you when you fell.

A 400m track surrounded by a 10 mile shaded technical trail loop, you know behind the bike route and up those cliffs and stuff. And there would be water fountains in the middle of the trail loop forrest and they wouldn’t be water, they’d be blue Powerade with a Hammer Gel Espresso dispenser next to each fountain.

Then there would be the massage studio with a cute female massage therapist who lived there and was open 24/7 and didn’t require tips. She’d also have a full sports clinic including ice bath and ultrasound. And being so close to the beach she’d probably wear a bikini most of the time too.

And finally to top it off we’d clone Tom D. and also clone his shop and put it right between the massage studio and Coldstone (yeah definetely a Coldstone Creamery). This shop would only carry my size bike btw and always let me put it on my bottomless tab. Tom D. would not be allowed to use the massage girl for any photo shoots.

Yeah, that about sums it up. I guess realistically I have most of that now within a 10 minute radius… Beach-7min run away, swim spot-8min run away, big grass park for intervals 5min run away, trails-4 miles away, track-2 miles away, bike loop-I ride that one every day with the exception of a few headwinds, massage therapist-well it’s a he and but it’s only 1/4 mile away, Coldstone-well it’s only mile away but I also have Breyers in the fridge, hot female cyclists who is also a model-my training partner, cute girls in bikinis-I’m in Hawaii and work at the University… Aaaah, life is good, well as long as you ignore that money part.

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The enduroman thing is based local to me over here. It’s seriously hardcore. If you put this into a website you’ll,see they do soem very small but very extreme events. Very much back to roots multisport.

Personally I’d have my own windtunnel bike facillities…

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Tai you need to write a book!

I read you’re post and got completely carried away - after ten minutes of staring into space the girl who sits next to me has just asked what I’m dreaming about.

i guess the one thing no-one’s mentioned is the gullet switch a long running dream invention of mine which’d let you could send oats, bran, organic fruit, yoghurt made from happy cows and all other good tri foods straight down to your stomach but then switch to “doesn’t count” and get on the phone to Domino’s - that would be sweet.

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Ohhh, your own windtunnel. That’s a good one.

Come on people, these should be things that are actually physically possible!! :slight_smile:

-C

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Personal bike mechanic.

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In Reply To Suppose you had a ridiculous amount of money to spend on some triathlon related thing. What would you do?

I’d build myself some roads without cars and ride my bikes up and down the middle of the lane.

-jeff

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I have a couple of bike designs I’d really like to see built. After I set up the design and produced a couple I could start selling them to consumers to make up some of my losses.