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60-Year-Old Sets Goal to Finish 60 Ironmans in One Year

WILL TURNER HAS ALREADY COMPLETED 43 RACES, AND HE WANTS TO INSPIRE MORE PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY.

Will Turner is a little busy at the moment.

The 60-year-old finished an Ironman-distance event in Telluride, Colorado, last Tuesday, drove and arrived at his home in Richmond, Virginia, last night, and is preparing for another Ironman race right there in Richmond. It will be triathlon No. 43—this year.

On January 7, 2018—his 60th birthday—Turner decided to go big with a project he’s dubbed Sixty @ 60, something he had been toying with for three years.

Turner casually mentioned doing six full-distance Ironman triathlons—that’s a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bicycle ride, and a 26.2-mile run—during for his 60th year to a friend three years back. But when the response was that somebody else in Richmond had recently done that, he felt a little deflated. So Turner decided to multiply his goal times 10.

“So I just thought, sixty at 60… and I thought it just had a nice ring to it,” Turner told Bicycling over the phone.