Ironman is: What is an Ironman? – 220 Triathlon

What is an Ironman? – 220 Triathlon

An Ironman is a long-distance triathlon race organised by the Ironman franchise. The term ‘Ironman’ has now become synonymous with races of this distance. A full Ironman has the following format: 3.8km swim, 180km bike, 42.2km run.

What does an Ironman consist of?

The first leg is a 3.8km open-water swim in the sea or a lake. Athletes will run from the water to the transition area (T1), where they’ll don their bike gear and jump on the bike for the 180km ride. Then, after preparing for the run in T2, the athletes will set out on a marathon (42.2km) for the final leg of the Ironman.

Not for the faint-hearted, an Ironman is widely considered to be the gold standard of endurance triathlon racing. Ironman is a household name across the globe and popular event locations include the famously hilly Ironman Wales, Lanzarote, Hamburg, Taiwan, Morocco… you name it.

What is an Ironman 70.3?

An Ironman 70.3 is half the distance of a full Ironman and ideal for those not quite ready for the challenge of a full. Popular British 70.3s include IM Weymouth, Staffordshire and UK. Top finishers of each event will qualify for the 70.3 World Championship which will take place in Utah for 2021 and Taupo, NZ for 2022. The full Ironman World Championship is always in Kona, Hawaii; the birthplace of the Ironman.

Interested in taking on an Ironman or half but not sure where to start? We’ve got you sorted, check out our training pages for all our top gear, nutrition and injury prevention tips!

Can anyone do an Ironman?

Yes, absolutely. Ironman races may be among the toughest triathlon events in the sport, but thousands of ordinary people make it to the finish line every year. As long as you’re prepared to put in the hours of dedicated long-course training, an Ironman should be doable.

In fact, you can even train for Ironman in a year, says coach Philip Hatzis. “It certainly depends on your starting point, but a year seems like a reasonable amount of time to prepare for an Ironman.” Find out more here.

How long does it take to complete an Ironman?

While the top pro male triathletes can complete an Ironman in less than eight hours and the women in under nine, those times are likely to be out of reach to us mere mortals. The overall cut-off time for many races is 17 hours, with separate cut-off times after the swim and bike.

For age-groupers in the 30-35 bracket, anything around 13 hours is a solid time for men, while 14 hours is a great time for women in that age bracket.

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Kate Milsom is 220 Triathlon’s staff writer and a keen endurance triathlete and bikepacker. Kate is in charge of the gear section of the magazine, with particular interests in cycling, nutrition and sports injury. Having previously bikepacked across Europe solo, Kate advocates for adventure and inclusivity within sport.

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3 Signs You’re Ready to Do An IRONMAN

Endurance athletes are a goal-oriented bunch. The more we get involved in our sport, the more we yearn to reach outside of our comfort zone, attempting go farther and faster.

For triathletes, this reaching often leads to the inevitable question: “Can I do an IRONMAN?”

IRONMAN training requires a significant investment of resources. To determine whether now is the right time for you, consider three basic factors:

1. Lifestyle
2. Athletic experience
3. Costs

1. Lifestyle

Your lifestyle is a key consideration before starting your IRONMAN journey. Finding an appropriate life-work-training balance will help you through the challenges of training – rather than stand as obstacles to your success.

How much time do you have to commit? You don’t need 20+ hours a week; however, training for an IRONMAN is still a time-consuming process. A typical plan will run a course of 24-30 weeks, with the first six to 10 weeks totalling between eight and 10 hours per week.

As you get closer to the race, training time ramps up, to averages closer to 12 to 15 hours per week. Peak weeks may hit 16+ hours, depending on the particular IRONMAN training plan you follow, or the coach you hire.

Training time will also detract from time you spend doing household chores, other hobbies and your social life. Consider if a balance is possible, or if you would be okay with things being out-of-balance for several weeks.

You may find yourself falling asleep while standing up at family events. You may forget what your friends look like as time for socializing becomes limited. You will get used to saying, “I’m sorry, I can’t. I have a long ride on Saturday morning.”

You’ll learn to accept that bedtime is 8:30 p.m. And, despite going to bed at 8:30 p.m., you will have days where you’re certain the alarm clock is conspiring against you. But, make sure you have time to sleep! One of the biggest mistakes age group athletes make is to cut sleep when volume increases.

Most importantly, think about how training will affect your family. It is crucial to have your family’s support. While you may have to get creative to balance family and training time, it can be done. Have a discussion with your family. Be honest about the time investment. Ask for their advice. Be willing to adapt your training for key events. For example, if there is a vacation or family event, plan for that to be a reduced load week or a rest day in your training. Work with your family, and ask for their support. Don’t assume they will give it.

Ask yourself, honestly, if you are willing to make these sacrifices in order to achieve your goal. While your life will not make a 180-degree change; it will change during the weeks you are training. Be honest with yourself!

2. Athletic experience

You will be more successful, and enjoy the experience much more, if you have a history in some type of endurance-based sport.

Training for an IRONMAN takes a toll on your body and mind. A gradual progression can help you avoid injury, overtraining or burnout. Race day is NOT the main challenge. The training is really what makes an IRONMAN challenging—and ultimately worth doing.

Each of you will have unique circumstances to your racing history, so there isn’t a specific formula that applies for all. However, you should have some experience with triathlon and with events that require multiple hours (say 4+ hours) to complete. A coach or fellow athlete with experience at the distance can provide helpful guidance in assessing your history and race readiness.

The specific course you select should be match to your experience and abilities. Each course will maximize or minimize certain strengths and weaknesses. For your first attempt at the distance, we recommend a course that:

• Is similar to your available training terrain. For example, if you select a race with hills, can you find access to hills for training – or suitable simulation? Conversely, a flat course presents it’s own challenges, so if you live in hilly terrain, you will need to teach yourself to pedal constantly. No coasting downhill on the flats!
• Speaks to your particular strengths. For example, if you are not a strong swimmer, then selecting an ocean swim may prove challenging—especially if you don’t have access to practice swims in the ocean.
• Is easy for travel. Driving to an IRONMAN reduces the travel logistics significantly. Additionally, if you live close enough to the course, you may have the opportunity to train on it. On the flip side, your family may be on board if you select a course that offers the possibility for a vacation. Just recognize that flying to a venue poses some logistical challenges.

3. Costs

IRONMAN is expensive. The race fees alone are around $700, but they are only the start.

There are training costs, such as pool fees, gear purchases or upgrades, and sports nutrition. Your weekly food bill may increase, as you eat more to fuel your longer efforts. IRONMAN training creates a monster in your belly.

There are travel and lodging costs. Most races require that you pick up your packet at least one to two days before the race, so you need at least three to four days of lodging. If you fly or drive, there are costs associated with that.

Not all of these items are fixed costs. You can keep the overall budget in check. For example, you need a bike, but you don’t need a $10,000 bike.

You will also need a training plan. An unstructured approach to training is not a recipe for success. As the saying goes, failing to plan is planning to fail.  Will you purchase a structured plan, hire a coach, find a free plan online? The decision to hire a coach goes beyond the scope of this article, but consider how the need for training advice will impact your budget.

So are you ready to do an IRONMAN?

I hope this article gives you some useful factors to consider as you make your decision. While the challenges may be significant, when you cross that finish line, you will feel like every moment was worth it to hear the announcer say: “You are an IRONMAN!”

The training and the race are a triumph of the human spirit, and a display of the depth of human determination. It will push your limits, and show you how amazing the human body and mind can be.

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Iron Man, USA, 2008

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a comic book about an arms salesman who is engaged in saving the world

Another film adaptation of a Marvel comic book. Robert Downey Jr. plays the inventor of new weapons systems, who puts himself in armor and takes it upon himself to save the world. For careful work on the image, Downey rented an office next door to director Jon Favreau.

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9000. Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Samuel L. Jackson, Leslie Bibb, Clark Gregg, Peter Billingsley, Sean Taub, Faran Tahir,

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Petr Favorov

260 reviews, 286 ratings, rating 3357

5

flares, chrome limousines and New York modern architecture. Iron Man, the next blockbuster based on the adventures of Marvel’s heroes, breaks with this tradition and, merrily rattling computer-generated explosions of megaton rockets, goes to the war on terror – where, until now, highly moral moralizing like “Uncensored ‘ or ‘In the valley of Elah’. It’s about time – in the last year of the Bush administration, otherwise the battle with the Taliban will also become retro.

In this sense, businessman Tony Stark (Downey Jr.) is, of course, an exemplary hero of our time: a shark of the American defense industry, a brilliant inventor of the latest weapons systems, a poseur, an alcoholic and a womanizer (“Is it true that you slept with all twelve girls from the covers of last year’s “Maxim”? “- the soldiers ask him. “Yes and no. I had no luck with the March one, but, fortunately, there were twins on the Christmas issue”). The main thing is a neoconservative patriot who is convinced that for the common good, America must not only have, but also use his bombs, because in the question “Should we be feared or respected?” he firmly considers the word “or” superfluous. Ambushed by dushmans while testing a new missile in the Bagram airbase area, he is surprised to find hundreds of boxes with the logo of his native company Stark Industries in their lair. The seriously wounded Stark, for the sake of appearance, agrees to work for his jailers (politically correct portrayed by anyone, from Hungarians to Malays, but not by Afghans), but in fact, right under their noses, he assembles a portable thermonuclear reactor, powering armored armor forged almost on the knee from it, smashes to hell with their entire Toru-Bora, along with weapons depots, and flies away in the direction of army positions. Returning to Los Angeles, to a villa on the ocean’s edge and a devoted secretary named Pepper Potts (Paltrow), he perfects his costume for about half the film, and then teaches a good lesson to those who put personal gain above the unconditional tactical and technical superiority of the US Armed Forces.

Considering that in the original comic Stark (loosely based on the great psychopathic aviation mogul Howard Hughes) fought the communists in the Vietnamese jungle, the film version of Iron Man at first seems like a grand diversion, a parody of warmongers filmed by the eternally left Hollywood on such a grand scale that Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who are prone to megalomaniacs, will even seem to have nothing to complain about. This feeling, however, disappears without a trace to the moment when Robert Downey, carefully approaching the drawing of the role, begins to depict a psychological crisis that changes the whole worldview of his hero. Stark’s mental suffering is shown in such detail, and the details of his internal upheaval are so ridiculous (according to the results, it seems that something like an awareness of the need not only to make and sell, but also personally use his miracle weapon) that it becomes clear: this is not a parody. Everything here is serious – including the responsibility of the scientist for the fact that the fruit of his labor falls into the right (that is, army) hands. Perhaps this seriousness reconciles with Iron Man – without it, he would have remained nothing more than a skillfully screwed attraction without a drop of human feelings, which, like engine oil, can only lubricate the creaky gears of such machines.

Dreaming of being a superhero is a privilege of adolescence, and it’s no surprise that the most successful Marvel comic book movie was Spider-Man, a film about how a notorious high school student became omnipotent. At first glance, the transformation of a talented adult man into a superhero is a sad and unnatural sight. But when the Iron Man comic plot fits like a native on the current images of international politics, the thought naturally comes to mind: all this is simply because the neoconservatives are the same teenagers.

April 28, 2008

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Walter Klemmer

92 92 reviews, 245 assessments, rating 549

5

I want to put the “Fifs” of the first two thirds of the Iron Man and the “Iron Man” and roll a hard aspen stake into the finale. However, disappointments as it happened: Robert Downey Jr. is just a fine fellow, such David Letterman quite rightly announces as one of the finest actors of our time. Thanks to the RDM, the stilted scenario is overgrown with reality even in the wildest scenes (however, there are very few of them), his jokes are funny, the character is tangible, the actions are dynamic. Throw in some no-CGI impact scenes and Gwyneth Paltrow’s tight skirt (also no CGI, I’m sure) and you’re good to go.0113 “Iron Man” becomes a pleasure.

The initial impression after the (exceptionally poorly localized) trailer was – what kind of rotten RoboCop hybrid will open the blockbuster summer season this year? In fairness, the film only becomes a “rotten hybrid” for a few minutes of the final battle, which, according to the law of the genre, should be a super performance, but in reality it turns out to be porridge smeared on a plate like “Transformers”, when the story suddenly reduced to a typical “Push the button, Pepper!” – what kind of button, where does it come from, and how Pepper (Paltrow) shod in luxurious Christian Loubutin is still alive in all this scrap metal, it is not clear. The rest turned out well: Tony Stark (Downey Jr. knows how to play an alcoholic: not only is life experience, but if you remember all his last roles – Charlie Bartlett, Scanner Darkley, Zodiac – he’s not out of the bottle at all got out), his assistant Pepper Potts (Paltrow is surprisingly sweet and in general she has legs, I must say just ah – it’s not for nothing that Madonna drives her to the gym every day), absolutely luxurious ZhCH armor, a lot of comedy situations and, for all that, quite cruel ( for a mass comic) battles – the film is very entertaining and does not allow you to get hung up on the inevitable clichés. Even the intrusive presence of the entire Audi range doesn’t hurt.

May 1, 2008

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4 reviews, 14 ratings, rating 25

9

“And instead of a heart, a fiery motor!”

Overseas filmmakers have long been making the best films based on Soviet song hits (“Sky Captain and the World of the Future”, for example, as it was noted, this is about “First of all, first of all, planes . ..”). The story of an arms magnate who almost lost his physical heart, but along with a saving thermonuclear reactor in his chest, found a metaphysical heart, is a fairy tale about a tin woodcutter of our days. Steel arms-wings for eternal romantics.

May 14, 2008

Kabal

105 reviews, 113 ratings, rating 723

7

An afternoon drive through the Afghan deserts was the end of the career of Tony Stark (Downey), the main arms dealer of his country: an ambush that accompanied him fell into the cars drowned in clubs of flame, and Stark himself, struck by the sight of bullet holes in the door, jumped out of the SUV, but did not run even ten meters – what to do, a rocket exploded somewhere nearby. To prevent fragments from piercing his heart, the martyrs sewed a magnet the size of a hockey puck into his chest and connected it to a car battery – and then said: “make us a warhead and we will let you go.” Instead of weapons, he made himself armor of iron and with their help he returned back. At home, however, new problems awaited him, a suit upgrade, as well as a faithful friend with a fighting bearing (Howard) and a Pepper Potts (Paltrow) tight skirt.

Everything flows – everything changes sooner or later. It is easy to agree with such a statement if you look at how big-budget films have been and are now arranged. On the one hand, there are a lot of clichés everywhere: the themes are beaten, the plots and characters are secondary. On the other hand, once every five years, people appear who, in search of new ideas and trends, uncompromisingly destroy the established canons of the genre. In 2002, Doug Liman turned the page on the spy thriller by coming up with the perfect killer in Jason Bourne, a man in the crowd. In 2006, Martin Campbell partially revived Bond when, against all odds, he took the short, blond Craig and made him feel pain. Of course, there were mini-revolutions in the film adaptation of comics, but if we discard all the flirting with the picture (Sin Sity, 300), then the only and truly large one remained with Spider-Man with his teenage romance. The second, perhaps, will be for “Iron Man” with his adult relationships.

Aaron Man isn’t strictly speaking the most popular comic in Marvel’s lineup, but it’s probably the most relevant to date. The title role here is Robert Downey Jr., who literally draws a collective portrait of our contemporaries with just a few strokes: a kind of cynical infantile, impartially burning life in the information flow of exchange rates, money transfers and neurotechnologies. In Peter Parker, as a simple man who cannot fuck a girl for three episodes in a row, one could only believe in the power of another script convention of a movie comic; in Tony Stark, who communicates with robots for more time and does not notice the pretty secretary under his nose, you believe immediately and unconditionally, because you recognize yourself, and in general, this, probably, is a certain symbol of the coming tomorrow. The main charm of “Iron Man” is not even in the freaky Downey, not in funny jokes and not in the pyrotechnical capabilities of director Jon Favreau, who, like Michael Bay, damnably loves to blow up tanks and simply tear off the wings of military aircraft to a squeal. The strongest thing in all this is the involuntary realization of how fragile and sometimes ridiculous simple human relationships are. In the end, from this 200-million-dollar film, which opens the summer blockbuster season this year, it is worth remembering just one scene and drawing from it a simple and obvious conclusion: robots, iron suits, saving the world is certainly good, but only a miniature feminine a pen, like Gwyneth Paltrow’s, is able to “replace the charge” in our heart.

May 2, 2008

BigBigZ

67 reviews, 109 ratings, rating 472

5

Technician genius Tony Stark makes a living by creating the most advanced weapons in the world, and then selling them for huge money to whom not hit. During another business trip to the Middle East, Stark is kidnapped by evil guys with machine guns, put under arrest and without a single word in English (American) is forced to make him a prototype of the deadly Jericho missile. It turns out they have been using the inventions of Stark Industries for a long time. Holding a fat fig for his offenders in his trouser pockets, the tycoon builds an iron suit in captivity and, sacrificing his scientist partner, escapes from prison. At home, he realizes that his kidnapping is a conspiracy orchestrated by his companion and old friend Obadiah Stein. Having improved his costume at home, he sets out to beat his offenders and becomes Iron Man.
Jon Favreau, who, in my opinion, directed the dumbest comic movie movie of our time, Daredevil, wove an almost perfect blockbuster canvas, at times disappointing only with the situational stupidities of the main characters, staged blunders and a faceless Paltrow as Stark’s “almost main love”.
Two beginnings, two destinies, two lives – the basis of any character of almost every superhero. Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker and many others suffered greatly, and sometimes annoyed the viewer, from their bipolarity of the inner world. It is out of habit that you prepare yourself for the fact that Tony Stark is also a member of the “Be yourself – Not be yourself” club. An no. Playboy, a reveler and part-time seller of death, falls in love with himself from the first minutes with his lax personality. Robert Downey Jr. on the screen is extremely rational, strict and resolute. No sentimental thoughts, snot and affection. A staunch supporter of the rule: “If I sell a gun, it doesn’t mean that someone will ever fire it.” Unlike the indecisive Spider-Man and Batman, who felt comfortable only dressed in their superhero attire, Iron Man remains a tough guy in ordinary life. Even Stark’s inner coup is taken for granted, not an event (Hollywood is very “famous” for this). It is this prudence that makes Stark essentially the most human of modern day superheroes, giving a delicious kick to Peter Parker’s teenage mental ordeals and Bruce Wayne’s closed duplicity.
Whiskey, Audi R7 and Maxi magazine models are Tony Stark’s three pillars. From now on, the superhero is an idol not only for children, but also for their parents.

May 7, 2008

Dmitry Jigalov

333 reviews, 1078 ratings, rating 1410

7Cyborg, but it’s normal

– Even Spider-Man would not allow himself such a thing! – my girlfriend remarked admiringly when the credits rolled. No wonder: the incredible Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man is enchanting!

Captured by terrorists in Afghanistan, millionaire playboy and weapons baron Tony Stark managed to escape thanks to his own talent and endurance. Wounded almost mortally, he soldered a mini-reactor into his chest, magnetizing small fragments circulating in the blood, and created an armored suit to defeat the terrorists. Returning to his villa, Stark decides to change the principles of his military industry – from now on, the weapons that he produces should only protect, but not destroy the world. And in the forefront of the defenders is Stark himself, clad in an improved armored suit of Iron Man.

Turning into a superhero is not just another notorious teenager, but forty-year-old Robert Downey, which cost Universal and Marvel $186 million, seems like a risky move. But when it comes to a possibility that simply no one has seen before, it is called by another word: genius.
A cynical playboy, a merry fellow and an enthusiastic designer in one bottle – Tony Stark must certainly become, if not a hero of our time, then a first-class example of our technogenic tomorrow. He was neither a poor genius, nor a mutant bitten by some rubbish – Stark made himself, doing what he loved and having fun. He sleeps with every hottie he meets and flies around the world in a plane with a striptease pole performed by luxurious flight attendants – but he is too charming and noble to seem immoral. Stark is like a modern Athos, addicted to technology at heart: he is alive enough to aspire to be like him, and quite perfect to be out of reach for imitation.

As befits the first series of a new franchise that has declared itself, the lion’s share of “Iron Man” is dedicated to the transformation of Tony Stark into a superhero. Heroes are not born – heroes are made: and Downey Jr. spends half of the film in the workshop, first literally forging, then debugging an armored suit full of various gears. The spiritualization of metal is fascinating: it seems that one can forever watch how iron parts move in the suit of the first cyborg, and with what funny incidents a person tames unbridled mechanical power.

Of course, preparations alone will not be enough: Iron Man will smash terrorists into tins, compete with fighter jets and almost fly to the moon. And from the final fiery battle with the throwing of cars and special agents, my eyes still burn like a child’s.

The fusion of man with metal has always been one of the favorite stories in world science fiction. Iron will, iron endurance, iron logic – and Iron Man as a perfect fusion of all this. But external hardness often coexists with restlessness and sensitivity, and the steel shell is designed to pacify the inner wildness.
Iron Man’s weakest point is his craving for special effects, and only the closest woman can start a fiery engine in his chest.