Any Oldtimers Here Remember This? Ironman Movie 1985

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“Challenge of a Lifetime”

I watched this as a teenager back in the mid-80’s. Anybody remember it? It was about a 35 year old woman who (gasp!) wants to train for the Hawaii Ironman!

Starring Penny Marshall and Jonathan Silverman – Mark Spitz was in it too. I think the character was supposed to have done a 5 hr bike split…!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbCSlnDCxIE

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Second only to the Magnum P.I. episode where Thomas rides a $10,000 bike in ‘the local ironman competition’.

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IRRC they had to have her do the obligatory Julie Moss crawl near the end.