How many Ironmen Active on BT

Fine I'll play by your rules

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4 with many more in the future!! Love the distance!!

KathyG - 2007-12-11 9:28 PM I can't wait to add my name to the list but not until next July

Look forward to reading the race report! 

jcjsc00 - 2007-12-11 11:42 PM

KathyG - 2007-12-11 9:28 PM I can't wait to add my name to the list but not until next July

Look forward to reading the race report! 

x 2 you'll kill it Kathy, keep up the great work training!

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Sorry you are not following the format, I will help

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Ah, the holidays. The time of year when this kind of question comes up and I get to kick back with my laptop, poke around the BT database for interesting little factoids and try to distract myself from my expanding waist line.

Lets get to it: 

I attempted to answer your question by counting race reports. For our purposes, a race report was counted if it contained an overall rank or finishing time.  I don't believe there are any remaining iron distance races anywhere in the world for 2007.  I counted published and non-published race reports. Not all of these are available via our Race Report DB search function.

We have race reports for 762 iron distance races entered by 638 people. 94 of those have multiple race reports entered. One person has 7 (yes he qualified for and raced at Kona).

359 reports for iron distance races were entered this year.

There are 11 race reports from the World Championships in Kona. All of those are from the last 2 years.

Defining which are 'frequent' BTers would be an exercise in itself, particularly at this time of year. A lot of triathletes, even the ironfolk, tend to keep the training and BTing to a minimum around December. Experience indicates that this will change in a big way over the next few weeks.

Here's the same report for Half Ironman races:

Olys

Sprints

There are a total 8,817 race reports for triathlons in our database from 2007. (Excuse me while I breathe into a paper bag for a minute.) So about 4% of them are for iron distance races.

This is the first year that we have more reports for iron distance races than Super Sprints. That could concern me a bit but it doesn't. The rate of growth in Super Sprints pretty closely mirrors that of Sprints. It's just that the iron distance numbers have shot up.

A few other interesting tidbits:

Judging by our numbers, things look grim for duathlon's prospects of becoming a breakout sport.

Half Marathons (my favorite run distance) are suddenly popular around here:

They're about half as popular as marathons:

There are 47 race reports from severely mentally ill people ultra marathoners this year:

And hopefully 2008 will be the year when I get around to putting in a "This is my first triathlon" checkbox into the race report because I really want to be able to track that and to give those race reports a bit of extra visibility.

Sorry for the hijack.

Leave it to Marm to take the fun out of it.