Tag: endurance sports legend
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A Life That Never Stopped Moving When you step back and look at Ted Epstein’s life, the miles, mountains, oceans, and finish lines are almost overwhelming. But the true story of Ted was never just about distance. It was about direction. Yes, he ran 480 miles across Siberia.Yes, he climbed the tallest peak in Antarctica.Yes,…
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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…
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The Leadville 100 — A Test of Grit and Character (1988) Five years after his first attempt at the legendary Leadville 100, Ted was ready to take on the brutal 100-mile mountain race once again. This time, he wasn’t alone. A close friend had decided to try Leadville for the first time and asked Ted…