IronMan

[sauerkraut]

Anyone here take part in the Ironman? I understand the event brought in almost $15 million dollars to the Tulsa economy.
A local weatherman entered the event. That is one tuff grueling event, the top dogs from Tulsa  move on to Kona, Hawaii to try for the world championship title.
I'm a runner so I would not do good in the cycling or swimming part, it'll take alot of training to do an IronMan.
The swimming part is the hardest so I guess that's why it's done first to weed out the slowest and thin the herd for the other two events.

[sauerkraut]

The "Tulsa Tuff" cycling event is coming up next month.
TATUR Racing  used to put on a 50 mile overnight run around the Riverside Trails, guess they are not doing that anymore. That's like doing a double Marathon.
The runners who did the event said during the late night they see all sorts of wild-life around the river banks, during the day all the animals are in hiding.

[Tulsa Zephyr]

Friday, my wife and I ran into a couple of blokes from Great Britain, who wives were in the IronMan competition.  We had a few beers at the bar at McNellies and had a very enjoyable conversation about the competition, politics, Formula 1, etc. Of course their wives weren't with them at the bar  .  We live at Lake Keystone and woke up Sunday 6:15am to see the swimmers do their thing at  Keystone State Park.  It's an amazing competition and I'm glad Tulsa could host this event.