Non-Ironman Ironman

For a time on this blog I fastidiously avoided using the term Ironman, because that is a brand. It's very tedious doing that and when you look at the history of this race, you realize that a couple of dudes, 80's sports hipsters, threw three events together and created a new sport. You can find the history of this many other places. Then someone, maybe them, branded it. Good for them. Make some money, whatever.

But a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26 mile run is an ironman. Period. It's a good thing the city of Marathon, Greece didn't brand the term "marathon" or we'd all be going around calling the same race different things to avoid copyright infringement. Pretty lame.

So I'd really like to collect a list of all the non-ironman ironman races, because a simple google search didn't get me what I was looking for. After messing around for a while, I know of the one in Vegas, there's one in Chesapeake Bay and there used to be one in Grand Coulee, but they dropped the (non) ironman event and now just have a half. Too bad about that, it was always my backup after doing it the second year it was held.

So that is the beginning of the list.