Category: Travel
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Ten Times the Distance The Deca Ironman Triathlon — Monterrey, Mexico November 7–25, 1992 Some races test your strength.Others test your will. The Deca Ironman tested whether a human being could keep going long after the body had forgotten how. But Ted didn’t arrive in Monterrey as a newcomer to suffering. He had been building…
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Iron Will in a Foreign Land — The Quadruple Ironman of Hungary Hungary, June 1991 By the time Ted arrived in Hungary, his body was already carrying the miles of giants. Just weeks earlier, he had finished a Triple Ironman in France. Now he stood at the edge of something even more daunting: a Quadruple…
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The Race Before the Race — Triple Ironman France France, 1989–1991 Most athletes taper before a big race. Ted Epstein apparently preferred full-contact travel logistics. Six weeks before the Triple Ironman in France, Ted had everything planned with the precision of a military operation. Two racing bikes were packed into a giant custom cardboard crate…