Posted on 10/18/2021 12:00:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m going to see if I can start an event the competitors pay for.
It will encompass a 500 yard briar patch low crawl, followed by a swim from Alcatraz to the mainland.
Entry is $500.
Can’t read the article (paywall). However, if it presents what I think it does, then maybe this is a sign that competitions are focusing too hard on “extreme” and not enough on the actual sport. A 100K run is challenging enough without throwing in extreme conditions, and even events that change terrain a lot (such as the Tour de France) are designed to have gear that changes based on the terrain of the day. To go from desert to mountain in a single day is a level of stupidity on the part of the organizers that should preclude them from ever being an organizer again. It sounds as if 17 runners died. Horrendous price for ignorance.
“I’m going to see if I can start an event the competitors pay for.
It will encompass a 500 yard briar patch low crawl, followed by a swim from Alcatraz to the mainland.
Entry is $500.“
I’m in.
When is it?
February 13th, that way you can prove your heart to your lover.
You are joking of course. However I knew a guy who did a triathlon where the swim leg was from Alcatraz to San Francisco. I’m sure he paid an entry fee so you may be on to something?
Those who cross the finish line do.
You also get a loaf of sourdough bread and a bottle of MD 20/20.
I just want to see if I can make money by getting people to hurt themselves/die for t-shirts.
And a mug, a mug. I need it to drink my MD 20/20.
Will people be out in the bay in boats handing out water?
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I’m going to see if I can start an event the competitors pay for.
It will encompass a 500 yard briar patch low crawl, followed by a swim from Alcatraz to the mainland.
Entry is $500.
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Add in a freestyle swim in a piranha infested river and you’ve got a winner event!
Mentally ill drug addicts will be chumming the water.
All cool people drink MD 20/20 straight from the bottle that’s in a brown bag.
Sounds good.
I haven’t been swimming from Alcatraz but have run the San Francisco’s marathon 3 times.
Doing hard physical things is a good thing. And I’m on the other side of 60.
BUT, there is a difference between doing hard physical things and being reckless.
This event in China was reckless .
Not sure how no one was aware of the dangerous weather, however as in the US are used to having good quality weather forecasts and data.
Maybe after the swim we’ll have a 5K nude run through the Castro District.
“Not sure how no one was aware of the dangerous weather,”
Apparently ignored pre-race warnings.
If you like hard/borderline reckless competition, I highly recommend CrossFit.
Hey, I've done the Alcatraz swim part, followed by a 3 mile run.
Do I get a prize?
You can go first in my new competition.
That’s impressive!
I got winded walking up the switchbacks to the top of Alcatraz for the prison tour.
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