Greetings estimated If you thought it was going to write about the Marvel hero, because this time it is not .. . If you want to know what Iron Man writing, keep reading.
crazy This story begins more than 30 years.
there in 1974 and 1975, the San Diego Track Club, held at bay multisport training mission in California, to its brokers made them swim, run and ride a bike. These were primitive triathlons extreme endurance training to improve the physical condition of the runners, but never took it to competition.
few years later, ending the year 1977 a controversy erupted between the Mid-Pacific Road Runners (Athletics Club) and members the Waikiki Swim Club (Swim Club) in an award in a relay race in Hawaii for each of the groups claimed for themselves the quality better and stronger for sports training and athletic swimming about others.
had to be competent to ascertain who were in better shape, but that the commander of the U.S. Navy, John Collins threw another log on the fire which burned as a magazine article asserted that Sports Illustrated Eddy Merckx (multiple winner of the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and winner of the Tour of Spain), great Belgian cyclist, was the man who recorded greater oxygenation in their blood, and the question was whether cyclists could maybe beat runners and swimmers.
John Collins, the Ironman minded
were 15 brave or naive who were noted to embark on such a crazy adventure that totaled 226km, the instructions were written a couple of sheets of paper and the back, handwritten read the following sentence: "Swim 2.4 billion! Bike 112 thousand! Run 26.2 thousand! Brag for the rest of your life "(not 3.8 km! Pedal 180 Km! Run 42.2 miles! Flaunt the rest of your life.) And who organized this madness Collins said, "who comes first to the finish line will be called Iron Man (Ironman, other than the Marvel comic book hero) so how was the term Ironman triathlete for the culminating 226 km
The race began on the morning of February 18, 1978, and the first man to win the title of IronMan was Gordon Haller, winner of that race.
Gordon Haller in the first IronMan
In 1982, Julie Moss, a student rushing to complete a study in physiology, collapsed while first woman to meters from the finish due to extreme fatigue of the race, and crawled to the finish, being broadcast this event live and comprehensive coverage of the press has become an achievement in itself to finish the race.
Ironman became a brand and, in the same format of the race, was exported to other countries (in 1985, New Zealand and Japan were the top to host an out of Hawaii Ironman), becoming more popular these races. Today are in addition to the ironman of the United States from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, Brazil, Korea, France, England, Japan, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia. Hawaii has become the Mecca of triathlon and running on the island of Kona is a requirement to pre-qualify in a previous Ironman (time or position).
is an impressive career that tests the human endurance beyond the limit and why I'm crazy, so I already signed up.
have become so prized and so few opportunities to compete in an Ironman because of these quotas is just extremely fast. A clear example was the Ironman Brazil (Florianopolis) for which the registrations were completed at 3 weeks of being open, and 12 months before the conclusion of the competition.
is a next post will explain about Him or Ironman 70.3 (Half Iron Man), feelings and what it means to run it.
What a good time.
A hug for all
Greetings
Gandha
