Ironman World Championships

Well today was the 2007 Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. I watched some of the live webcast when the site was working. I guess it was getting slammed by people watching the coverage. It was cool actually to have workout with a person who was competing as well as knowing of a few others via the Slowtwitch forums.

Spoiler Alert: Chris McCormack ended up winning the men's race. The women's race is still going on right now as I write this. The woman's race wasn't as predictable. The men's race had a couple of the favorites go out right at the beginning. Crazy stuff....it's just amazing even at the pro level things can happen to ruin their race day. The defending women's champ had a preforated ear drum. I'm not sure how that happens but that doesn't sound fun at all when it comes to swimming. The defending men's champ basically threw up right after the swim and dropped out. The heat looked like it was taking its toll on most of the other folks there as their split times were nowhere near previous times they ran earlier this year.

My goal is to not only complete Ironman Canada but qualify for Hawaii as well. It would just be a great experience to do the course where it all started. It's like when the Olympic marathon was basically the exact course that was run in Athens. I'm not sure I'll be able to do but I'm gonna really put it all there next year.

The OSU Beavers are playing California right now. Since the LSU Tigers lost today if Cal wins they'll be #1 in the nation. I'm hoping for a nice upset by my Beavs kind of like the Stanford win over USC in LA. I got a coffee on it so we'll hope for the best.

I had a decent treadmill run today and tomorrow I'll get back in the pool as well as doing another treadmill run.