The American Zofingen

Powerman Zofingen is the mecca of our sport--six-time Hawaii Ironman champ Mark Allen once declared it to be harder than Kona--but duathloning in the United States has seemed to be almost exclusively of the 5K/30K/5K sprint variety. For months, Team USA member John McGovern has been working on an "American Zofingen," and now it looks like his efforts have borne fruit. It sounds like a tough race, worthy of the "American Zofingen" title.

I'd love to do this if I could only manage to finish an ultra-distance event without suffering from the show-stopper problems that have plagued me all year. I think those who show up at the starting line will one day look back on that day and remember that they were there at the start of something big.