Team Hoyt

[Samapico]

It's amazing people like these that make me realize how much I suck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjt3RvazRk

[rootbear75]

so his dad, ran a triathalon... holding his son.... why?

[»Lynx]

Because his son couldn't complete it himself, and I'm assuming if he could he would have wanted to compete in the triathlon. His son looked happy being involved, and I'm assuming that completing the triathlon would make him happy, albeit with help is better than not doing it at all. I completed a triathlon this time last year (Sept 20th) and it was one of the hardest things I've done, I can't imagine how hard it would have been dragging a boat, riding with extra weight on the bike and carrying somebody while running.

 

Hey root, maybe you should have a go at doing a triathlon?

 

-L

[rootbear75]

probably not..

 

they are having "Dulles Day" at our airport in october... might go and do the plane pull

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-epd6KwgY&NR=1

Edited September 11, 2009 by rootbear75

[Samapico]

From http://cjcphoto.com/can/ :

This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

 

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

 

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

 

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

 

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

 

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

Explains a bit better how he got in this whole thing

[»Lynx]

How does pulling a plane for a few seconds with 19 other people have anything to do with a triathlon at all?

 

-L

[»Lynx]

Actually, let's put this into perspective...

 

A 160,000 lbs plane is approximately 18077NM, and to work out the rolling distance we'll use the 12ft mentioned at the beginning - so, 12ft into meters is 376cm, or 3.76 meters. One calorie is around 1486 J (depending on the person). Now, we'll need to figure out the force of a plane, which will require me finding a rolling resistance of that particular plane (which isn't happening), however I'd predict around 0.5, correct me if I'm wrong - either way, it won't matter much. So from there we can use the following calculation to find out the force required (rolling resistance (a) * weight of object ( = force ©. Once we have ©, we'll multiply that by distance (d) to find out how many joules (e) it will take in total to move the plane the 12ft (d). Then, as the team is of 20 people, we'll divide that final figure (e) by 20 to give us our Joules total.

 

(0.5 * 18077) * 3.76) / 20 = 1699.238

 

So, putting all of this together...

 

So, in total you'd use ~1699 joules to pull that plane in a team of people (even depending on if you'd be working as hard as the rest of the team), which is approximately 1.14 calories. Now of course there are MANY other factors that can put the above figure way off, but that's a pretty fair estimate I believe. Probably around 1500x easier than a triathlon.

 

-L

[Samapico]

Probably around 1500x easier than a triathlon pushing/pulling a 110 lbs person all the way.

 

-L

[»Lynx]

Actually, I was being reserved when I was saying 1500x for a triathlon for one person, I assume that a triathlon would probably burn more calories than that, considering the estimate for a 45 minute spin class is 650 calories.

 

-L

[Samapico]

I wasn't trying to "attack" your 1500 number... just pointing out that I'm 99% sure NONE of you could even finish a triathlon (I couldn't)... let alone a whole f********** triathlon PUSHING a 110 lbs person.

 

I'm still not sure if that story is supposed to make me feel good cause 'you can do anything if you want to' or if I should feel bad cause 'no matter what you do, you will never be that awesome'.

[»Lynx]

And I wasn't being defensive, I was agreeing further that even the aforementioned 1500cals was a reserved figure for a lone triathlon, and that carrying another 110lbs extra would sure burn a LOT more cals. I could think of a few people I've seen on SS that could complete a triathlon though, with a little training it's not hard to complete, but to do it quickly... Well that's a whole other story. When I done it we done a sprint triathlon which was a 740M swim + 22KM bicycle ride + 5.2KM run - I found that insanely hard to complete, however I never trained for it specifically just patched up on my swimming technique. It took me around 1:10 to complete. A full triathlon is around 3500M swim + 180KM bicycle ride + marathon (42200M) run... Which is insane, and I know I wouldn't even stand a chance in completing. I'd imagine you'd start sunrise and finish around sunset.

 

Check out IronMan for *hardcore triathlons.

 

-L