The Iron Cowboy Completes the Impossible – 50 Ironmans in 50 Days in 50 States

Drug test or it doesn’t count!

Not surprised, the body will fail without dropping back to active recovery via ELLIPTICAL or a rest day. The back-to-back factor is the impossible part. Ugh running!

@veganpotter, as the holder of a Master’s degree in exercise physiology, I cringe when I read uninformed and unfortunately stupid comments like your “only running downhill”. If you don’t know what you are talking about, please keep your opinion to yourself. You don’t understand the effects of eccentric loading on the musculature, and if you did, you would praise his ability to “only run downhill” 26.2 miles even once.

Jesus, way to miss the forest for the trees. Dude does something crazy hard to raise money for charity and you quibble about how he achieved his distance. Know how hard this would be if he did 100% of it in a pool, on a trainer and on a treadmill? Still incredibly crushing.

meanwhile you’re at your keyboard. I’m sure that showed James.

@Devin, fully agree 100%. Come on trollers, back off, it’s good cause, show some support!!

ascar…I didn’t literally mean he ran downhill. That said, Mt. Haleakala and Mona Loa will give you over a 26 mile, downhill run. As for the bike, MOST of his bike rides had a flock of other bikers…pictures HE POSTED don’t lie. Ever draft? And yes, this is a lot of work and still impressive but still fudging what happened. That is a problem. He set out a plan to do Ironman events, if he felt better, I’m sure he would have done it unassisted. But when he cracked, the pressure was too high to not cheat his way to the finish.

The charity portion has also had its questions, he’s raised little money over the expenses for the event. If it was more official, he would have surely raised a ton of money but since it wasn’t, he didn’t. Jamie Oliver’s organization actually didn’t know anything about this guy until he started his efforts…that’s pretty questionable. Oh…I’m going to do X event and raise X amount of dollars for a major organization and not tell them a thing about it…weird at best

Just driving through all 50 states in 50 days in impressive. I cant imagine trying to ride in all of them as well. He must be drawing magical power from his beard, its really the only logical explanation.

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@veganpotter He spoke at my work before he started this and Jamie Oliver was onboard before he started. Get your facts straight and don’t share comments that you dont have actual data behind. Unless you were with him on every race you have no idea what he did and didnt do. (deleted)

Can you imagine your significant other saying to you: “honey, I’m going to stop working, train to raise money for something other than my children, and relinquish all household/family responsibilities.”

He has 5 kids!!??

Cant believe the trolls on this. Whether you view it as a true ironman or not, it is still an incredible feat of human endurance and an amazing achievement not only for himself but everyone else who got inspired by him doing this

There’s a motor in his beard.

Beard motor FTW! Even if he had motor paced the bike legs alone it’s impressive enough. “All he did was exercise 16-18 hours a day” for 50 freakin days. Mind-boggling endurance. I couldn’t even roll downhill for 26.2 miles.