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Challenge yourself
Sometimes we triathletes do crazy things, like mad hard workouts, or doubling up on races over a weekend, or logging a three-hour run before a ten-hour workday. Sometimes I wonder if we try to out-crazy each other just for the sake of doing things that seem totally insane to normal people, or just because we can (and because it's fun, in a sick way, of course).
My friend Russ is doing something far crazier than I've ever done, but he's also doing it for a couple of great causes. He plans to race four triathlons four weekends in a row in September to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. And he's not just doing any four races. He will be racing an Olympic-distance triathlon, a half-ironman, a sprint, and then a full ironman, in that order. That's 262.5 miles of triathlon in a month. With only a week between each race!
That, my friends, is the best kind of crazy. Both nutty and noble.
He's blogging his experiences over at challenge2help, so go check it out and give the man some money!
July 23, 2007 9:59 PM
Not to take anything away from Steve - because it is a noble cause, and far greater than anything I can do - but more to add to the crazyness, Joe Rinehart is riding 200 miles in two days. Where do these people get such energy? I'm lucky to make my way from the couch to the fridge for a beer 2 days in a row.