M.O.T.H.E.R.S. was inaugurated in the mid-90s by a group of triathletes who work, live, and train in and around Morehead City, North Carolina. The acronym originated during the flight home after several of the initiating members completed Ms. T's Triathlon in Chicago.

The name began to "stick" as more of the flat-landed Carteret County athletes began to bank together as training partners for a variety of races with distances between sprint and Ironman length. With a consensus to strive "over" rather than under the hill, a more accurate reflection of the chronologically challenged abilities of the group was obtained.

Since its inception, M.O.T.H.E.R.S. have continued to train, race, and grow old and decrepit with themselves and any other fool-hearted idiots who have nothing better to do with their spare time than to swim, bike, run, and paddle to exhaustion.

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