Originally Posted by
dr_max
Add any triathlete or any runner into the category and you lose all the fat guys. You can bike easy at 40 kph being fat, you can't run at 15 kph when your fat. End of story.
So the roughly 700 people that took 6 hrs or more to run the marathon portion of Ironman Canada were all lean hard specimens? I suspect if you were to look at the pictures you'd see quite a few fatties in that race.