good luck Mike--save some for the run!

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Randy Christofferson(http://www.rcmioga.blogspot.com

Insert Doubt. Erase Hope. Crush Dreams.

Sounds good to me. Good luck, I wish it was 6:45 Hawaii time already! I've been up since 4:45 West Virginia time, thank you newborn baby... who's name just happens to be Kona :)

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Yes, I shave my legs. Yes, I am comfortable with this. I am enlightened.

Good luck eganski.

For those looking for the live coverage:
Video: http://ironman.edgeboss.net/...an-kona08_081010.asx
Text, photos, Leaderboard, athlete tracker etc: http://ironman.com/...onship&year=2008
Audio only: http://ironman.edgeboss.net/...8spotters_081011.asx

Broadcast Schedule (all times local race time; for Eastern US, add 6 hours):

• 4.30am Exercise is Medicine - From the Ironman Medical Conference
• 5:30am Ford Countdown to Kona: Race Day
• 6:00am Ironman Live: Ford Ironman World Championship (swim start to the last official finisher!)

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Francois-Xavier Li @FrancoisLi
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw
http://www.swimrunfrance.fr
http://www.worldofswimrun.com

Actually it is pretty cool!
Now finish your oatmeal, have a nice HUGE coffee, realx and CRUSH DREAMS!!!!
We'll be following along all day getting nothing else accomplished. I've transferred my long run to the treadmill so i don't miss anything.

Good luck to all the ST KONA peeps!!!

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http://j-motrilife.blogspot.com/

Best of luck Mike!

Also, for those of you who have looked at the Athletes Qualified for World Championships & may have also been confused (as I was), it includes the names of whose qualified for Kona AND Clearwater. Just an FYI.

Time for a little ride & some pumpkin picking then glued to the webcast for Super Bowl Saturday!!

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Brian Shea
http://www.PersonalBestNutrition.com
Open-Water/Masters Swimming at the Jersey Shore:
Monmouth County NJ Ocean Swim/Masters Workouts

Good luck to all competing today!! Aside from Chrissie W (way to cool not to root for her) it would be great to see some underdogs like Lieto, Lovato, Bell, Biscay or Ficker reach the podium......here's to an underdog day!!!!

Good luck! I will be out on the roads chasing all you guys. :D

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I know I'm promiscuous, but in a classy way

Good luck to everyone!

SHould be a good race for Normann. He got 8 hrs. sleep and looks pretty relaxed.

GO WINNER!

Best wishes and good luck to the STers today!

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Awesome. Good luck to all out there.

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

I posted this in the other thread but maybe this is the place for this:

I am looking to track an athlete on my cell, are they going to have the text message updates this year the way they have in previous years?

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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything."
G.C.

How big are your video player screens? I'm only getting about a 2" x 2". I thought the past couple of years I could go full screen.

The pros always manage to start like 50-60ft infront of the 'real' start. Nice.

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

Yeah, let's see the IM swimmers hang with the ITU guys..

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

Same - REALLY small. Wishing it were in an external viewer so I could resize it.

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I pasted the url into WMP and am abler to go full screen, try that

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**Note above poster works for a retailer selling bikes and related gear*

I'm watching it in Google's chrome, and it plays in the browser. I've also got the ffdshow decoder, which it is using. I can right click on the video, and tell it to play fullscreen. Looks pretty good.

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there was no one chasing us... distance is its own reward.

Watching in WMP and no problems at 200%.

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

More actual footage and less footage of the studio please.

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

When I clicked on the link it went straight to windows media player and plays in full screen with no problems at all.

wow, the first group has a crazy lead.

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Searching for the bliss of ultimate exertion.

I haven't been able to find it yet. Let us know if anyone finds it. I have to do a long run today and don't want to miss my friends' splits.

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"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone should have a dog that worships him and a cat that will ignore him." - Dereke Bruce