Maybe Jenson's wife/girlfriend smiles. All kidding aside, some of these guys just have everything perfect, but that is fine as they work harder than us for it all and are not squandering time posting here (damn you slowman....). I think we know our place in life and that is fine too :-)

I wonder if those tats would look so good on me ?

Yeah, I was going to say high 9s are a real possibility...just didn't want to say it first. :)

hmmm, the article says "worlds toughest triathlon." I wonder what that means.

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...LOL, OK now that you said it....70-5:15-3:30 gets him there. I'd like to give him some transition training to squeek under as I was sub 5:30 for T1+T2 (but lost the 45-49 transition championship by a few seconds....). We'll need Beck to get those transitions sub 5:00 or run faster....

I think sub 10 will be a stretch. Sub 10:30 seems more comfortably fast.

Dev

"Wonder if he can can cook with that thing...?"

That reminds me ... Gotta stock up on sausage

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If they change the rules to only backwards and side ways running I bet he'll throw down the fastest run split:

(owen hargraves)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMy-qBo0gbw

This might be the best yet.

I think a sub 10 is possibly but highly unlikely. Shouldn't have any trouble going sub 11 though. He was every possible tool at his disposal to go sub 10 though, from genetics to equipment, so it really comes down to how committed he is.

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Exposure in the sense that it introduces the sport to someone who has never heard of Ironman/triathlon before. Triathlon is still a long way from being mainstream like soccer, football or basketball or even motorsports.

What I meant is that if a fan of Beckham or just anybody who knows Beckham comes across an article about him doing this "Kona" thing, he is going to find out about the world of that 140.6 miles.
Its not always about the mainsteam coverage, it's the little things like Beckham's name appearing in a Facebook news feed, a Twitter article or something on that level.

I think if people discover the world of Ironman because a famous someone was mentioned in an article, that is good exposure for me. :)

BTW I live in Asia too. And people in my social circle are already begin to tall about it. That's good exposure. Haha

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He should post 11hrs something...

Maybe that's Crowie's plan now that he's stepping away from IM. Maybe he should take a year off and just be his training partner.

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I think this is great, this is really good for the sport.

Actually, I think WTC should just have pros, celebrities and some of the people with life stories to fill in the NBC broadcast at Kona.
Seriously, who cares about the age groupers anyway.

If we want to sport to grow and reach new markets, fill Kona up with competitors that people care about, not Hans from Denmark. Give us Beckham, Upton, Tebow, Zlatan etc. With those people triathlon will be on everybody's lips.

Just need him and Adam Levine for best tatted up in a race kit and the female viewership of Kona just skyrocketed.

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not sure if this was already mentioned, but Becks was a champion cross country runner when he was around high school age. Don't have time to look up exactly what he did, but I remember from reading his biography a while back that he was VERY fast on his feet. that will help

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Bet he gets an IM KONA tattoo

Much as I like Beckham despite the fact in the past he's gotten alot of stick, I still think he should qualify just like everyone else. Whilst it may give more temporary media exposure, I question the effectiveness of drawing people into the sport just because a particular celebrity has chosen to do it. IM is by definition supposed to be hard. The desire to do it IMO is a very fundamental calling.

He's using Kona to prove that he's got what it takes to do Norseman, and hopefully get a celebrity spot.

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Dev,I think Macca would be the man for Beck's,he already has a Under Armour tie in with the Premier Leauge having gone to the UK to do a promo session,photo shoot and workout with the boys at Tottenham. He is suitably Hollywood enough..Can you imagine the chaos at Kona for Macca's post race party if Beck's turned up?


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As long as he doesn't wear a shirt I'm totally cool with it.

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I'm not certain he has the time to bike and swim enough for that. Plus figuring out how to race in the heat for that long is difficult for a lot of people. For sure he could easily put down a very fast oly or half in good weather conditions with the level of fitness any professional soccer player has, but long course hot IM is a very different story. My guess would be low 11's first time out and low 10's on the second try. But I wouldn't doubt he has sub 10 potential with a year of training under elite coaching if he takes it seriously.

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Probably not the Auburn Triathlon... that's just the world's toughest half. Maybe they didn't want to go through the trouble of typing out Ironman(tm)?

Either way, if people think Hines Ward was a big deal in terms of publicity, get ready for the circus to hit Kona in 2014. I hope he does participate, and just like a couple of others mentioned, he could potentially hover around high 9's to mid 10's.