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2010-01-09 8:18 PM

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Subject: challenge to complete 140.6 in a month!
I've been seeing a lot of lack of motivation threads on here lately, so I thought I'd send this along. I read about it in a blog I read and decided to register for it as a means to get my motivation back on track!

CONTACT Cape-Atlantic is putting on a triathlon/duathlon challenge that can be done from anywhere! Basically you have a month (from Jan. 18-Feb. 18) to complete a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, and 26.2 mile run. You can also do different activities to count for swimming/biking/running. There's only a $25 donation and you get a t-shirt and award if you complete the challenge. Here is the website if anyone is interested: http://www.contactcapeatlantic.org/pdfs/TriathInfo_and_Reg_2010.pdf

2010-01-09 8:49 PM
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If this gets you motivated - good for you!
2010-01-09 9:03 PM
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Subject: RE: challenge to complete 140.6 in a month!
Our local YMCA used to do this.  They called it the Couch Potato Ironman.   You had one month to complete the distances.  You could do it all indoors at the Y if you wanted to our do some outside, weather permitting.

I did it a couple years in a row.  It was fun.  Once I got to the last day and hadn't done any swimming.  Yeah, I got in the pool and swam the 2.4 miles in one session!
2010-01-10 7:59 AM
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They did something similar to this at an old job.  You had 6 weeks and the winner was the first to complete the distance.  I won and took about a week to finish.  That will be the only Ironman I ever win! 

2010-01-10 9:07 AM
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Subject: RE: challenge to complete 140.6 in a month!
Another thread somewhere on the board mentioned a similar challenge at their gym (I think it was called the Lazyman).  I would have to get a cyclometer with a rear pick-up since all my riding right now is on the trainer, but I sent a challenge out to a couple of friends that did Steelman and Marshman with me last year as part of their initiation into the world of triathlon.
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