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This will be a great weekend to spend inside
...because you can watch Ironman races on TV on Saturday and Sunday!
Last month's Hawaii Ironman World Championship will be broadcast tomorrow at 1:30pm (Pacific Time -- check your local listings), following some big football game. (And dammit, the game had better not run late and cut into the IM coverage like it did last year, grumble grumble.)
Then on Sunday at noon Pacific, OLN will be airing the coverage of Ironman Coeur d'Alene. Look for me -- I'll be the one heading out to start the run in the background while they're interviewing the winners on camera.
You may think that watching a 9-hour race on TV (even condensed to 90 minutes) has the potential to be totally boring. But you can count on NBC to kick it up with melodramatic music and heartstring-tugging Human Interest Pieces! My friends and I were all reduced to tears last year when above-knee amputee Sarah Reinertsen arrived at the bike-to-run transition a few minutes past the cutoff time. Seriously, I am choking up a little just thinking about it, even though I know that she came back this year and finished the race well within the time limit. I'm sure my eyes will be moist when I watch her cross this year's finish line. That is the power of Al Trautwig's voice.
November 11, 2005 2:05 PM
Ha! I'm watching it now and surfing the net during commercials (does it get any geekier?).
Sarah was at the Estes Park sprint triathlon last year and I gave her a 'good job' or something like that that came out way too condescending when I passed her on the bike. At the awards ceremony they announced she was from California and I was amazed that anyone would travel so far for such a dinky race. I had no idea she was a 'celebrity' of sorts and was amazed to see her at the Hawaii Ironman last year. Truly an incredible story.
Thanks for the heads up for CDA, I had no idea.
I watched it and cried all over the place when that guy with the ALS got to T2, and then when Sarah Reinertsen did, oh, the humanity! It was possibly just dredged up leftover emotion from the Tour de France because it was almost the same announcing team, minus Bob. I think I didn't cry as much as I should have during the tour because Bob kept interrupting my moments. Yay Lance! You are an Ironman! I'm so confused!
PS Is Dave OK? The ominous silence has me worried.
Oh, yesterday we were all cheering for Blazeman (ALS guy) to make the bike cutoff. Seeing his parents talk while holding back tears was almost more than I could handle.