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.
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.
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.