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[Neavesy]

Howdy All, I am interested in listening to your thoughts on Maccas new and latest challenge.

Have a look at the following link to find more details about it.

http://ironman.com/events/ironman/worldcha...has-planned-thi

In short Macca (recently crowned Kona Ironman World Champion) is planning on doing Ironman Germany in Frankfurt and then backing it up within 7 days to race the famous Ironman Roth.

You reckon Crazy or Not??

I personally think it would be a great challenge for someone who has reached the pinnicle in his sport, by no means will it be easy to finish two Ironmans at the pace he does, but I dont think impossible. I personally would love to try and back up a couple of Ironmans after completing Ironman WA in 2007, and I am going as close to that as I can by planning on competiting in Anaconda Geographe Bay in mid November 2008 and then backing it up with Ironman WA in early December.

So what do other CR's think?

Cheers

[kathmandu]

Wow, hes one tough dude, he'll give it a fair crack.

I love the way people say he cant do it, just like they have for every other sporting milestone. Luckily with these amazing athletes that just fuels them to go harder.

I wonder if the next progression will be a double (ultra) ironman?

Gotta love the way humans just have to go that one step further, guess thats evolution.

Cant wait to see how it turns out for him.

[Uncle Dave]

I'm sure its been done plenty times before, though probably never by an athlete of Macca's calibre.

Maybe when he's done with Hawaii he can smash the record at Ultraman.

Am I just imagining things, or did Derek Clayton run a 2.17 marathon not long before his world record????

Unc

[Mister G]

Uncle Dave, on Jan 16 2008, 03:43 PM, said:

Am I just imagining things, or did Derek Clayton run a 2.17 marathon not long before his world record????

Yeah, 10 days prior, in Turkey.

This feat is certainly doable if you have enough of a base (and I assume McCormack does), it is routinely accomplished on the US 100 mile circuit, sometimes by high level runners.

[RMC]

Good on him. Hope he pulls it off and then decides to give a 100k run a go and represent Aus in ultras.

[Hamburglar]

He must be getting alot of money to race in both. Can't think of any other reason that he would do that. I thought he was trying to minimise the amount of racing he was doing (i.e. not racing Ironmanoz).

[Paul Every]

It is doable to effectively race Ironman on consecutive weekends and it has been done before. Off the top of my head I can't think of which athletes have done it. Tinley perhaps? I think Tony Sattler unsuccessfully attempted it in the days when IMNZ and IMOz were a week apart.

If you have been training for Ironman full time for quite a few years you do pull up fairly well in the space of a week.

As far as 100km goes (which I think thrashes the body in a roughly comparable way to Ironman), Santalov used to run world class performances seven days apart.

I can't see Macca racing 100km, doing a double ironman or doing Ultraman, purely because he can earn much better money doing what is now. And that includes doing two Ironman races in a week.

[miners]

I remember some guy did 7 IMs back to back in the week leading up to IMOZ 05 for charity ... of course he wasn't exactly going sub-9 for each attempt

My understanding of the back-to-back IMs for Macca is that (apart from whatever financial incentive he's likely receiving), he wanted to race Stadler on his home turf in Germany - but Stadler always chose to race Frankfurt rather than Roth which Macca has made his own in recent years.

[Paul Every]

miners, on Jan 16 2008, 10:27 PM, said:

I remember some guy did 7 IMs back to back in the week leading up to IMOZ 05 for charity ... of course he wasn't exactly going sub-9 for each attempt

That would be Andrew Stanfield. Six from Sunday to Friday and race day was number 7.