1. And I'm starting with 1, because this is not a countdown. That's for the ball-drop in Times Square, and there will be plenty of counting down getting done. But I'm getting distracted here. Reason #1? Fireworks! The start of the run is as close as you are likely to get to a big fireworks display without getting arrested. Are you a fireworks fan? Or are you at least fond of loud noise and bright lights? This is the race for you!
2. The race will not be timed. The run is a fun run, the ride will be in and out of traffic (we stop for red lights, people!), and the swim doesn't involve anything like distance, so no reason to worry about your time. Liberating, right?
3. You've always wanted to do the Polar Bear thing, but you have never had the right motivation. Haven't you always at least thought about jumping in to really, really cold water, just to see what it was like? Here's your chance.
4. This race goes in the order that a triathlon should go: run, bike, then swim. My mother always wondered why triathlons, which always seem to be on hot muggy days, don't end with the swim, which would be such a good way to cool off. And she has a point, right?
5. No body marking. I promise.
6. It's a race on a weekday - how often do you get to do that?
7. If you can't choose which of the really nice parties you have been invited to that you want to go to, this gives you an out. I, for example, was invited to two swanky parties in Brooklyn and two in Manhattan (of undetermined swankiness). If I go to one, I unintentionally spurn the others. Not cool. But now I have not an excuse but a reason not to go to any of them - I have a race to run!
See you out there, and Happy New Year!
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