Don't forget - KONA

FishHog · Postby **FishHog** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:18 am

Sat 2:30 on NBC.

Jo-Jo · Postby **Jo-Jo** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:21 am

Every year the Kingston MultiSport Club holds a party to watch it.
I'm not a member but my alter ego "Hula Girl" always gets an invite!!

bnn · Postby **bnn** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:53 am

you bet I'll be watching!

ROW · Postby **ROW** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:04 pm

I'll be at a swim meet....

Madame Bourette · Postby **Madame Bourette** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:15 pm

Blanken wrote:I'll be at a swim meet....

3 letters: V-C-R.

Sir Crashalot · Postby **Sir Crashalot** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:20 pm

Iron Enfant Terrible wrote:
Blanken wrote:I'll be at a swim meet....

3 letters: V-C-R.

Not P-V-R... not that I own either one :lol:

DeltaTrev · Postby **DeltaTrev** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:03 pm

Will be recording to watch on Sun, when I will be on the trainer for a couple of hours :roll:

Looking forward to the "personal stories".....never be another like the "blazeman" or the "hoyts"...or will there be......

psssssss................no one tell me who won !!!!!

:lol:

I know.... wells, and crowie, I sat thru over 6 hours on the comp watching the Ironman live feed on race day

eljeffe · Postby **eljeffe** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:37 pm

DeltaTrev wrote:I know.... wells, and crowie, I sat thru over 6 hours on the comp watching the Ironman live feed on race day

Really???! Wow I had no idea. I wonder if that's why Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington have 47 pages of product endorsement ads in the current Triathlete Mag? :lol:

trixiee · Postby **trixiee** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:07 pm

FishHog wrote:Sat 2:30 on NBC.

Thanks Fish! It is now on my Google Calendar!

DeltaTrev · Postby **DeltaTrev** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:37 pm

eljeffe wrote:
DeltaTrev wrote:I know.... wells, and crowie, I sat thru over 6 hours on the comp watching the Ironman live feed on race day

Really???! Wow I had no idea. I wonder if that's why Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington have 47 pages of product endorsement ads in the current Triathlete Mag?

I'm wondering what the $$ amount for winning Kona actually totals up to over the year following a win.....Chrissie flew her parents in this year to watch, not a cheap trip from England, and she stated that prior to winning her first IM (Korea ?) she was basically "skint", and without that prize money couldn't have gone to Kona....and now she has bought (and paid cash for) a home in Boulder......where her new coach Cliff English (soon to be husband of Sam McGlone) is based.

bnn · Postby **bnn** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:56 pm

lovin the cheesy coverage!

trixiee · Postby **trixiee** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:08 pm

Me too!

IronGoddess · Postby **IronGoddess** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:21 pm

It did make me shed a tear or two. The age groupers are amazing. Cheesy as it is it is still amazing what a person can do. My fav. the 73 yr old women man she looked great even at the finish she rocked it

bicycle.boy · Postby **bicycle.boy** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:46 pm

I forgot to remind my buddy to record and digitize it, and he forgot to record. Anyone else have the technology to provide me with a digital copy?

jonovision_man · Postby **jonovision_man** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 6:45 pm

Banane wrote:lovin the cheesy coverage!

Ugh... it was brutally cheesy.

The Muskoka 70.3 coverage was actually better, lower budget perhaps, but they actually covered what was going on in the race!

jono

scrumhalfgirl · Postby **scrumhalfgirl** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:57 pm

the usual cheese - love it! You know what you're going to get, and NBC delivers. I'm pretty sure they use the same voice over script every year!

MINITEE · Postby **MINITEE** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 7:03 am

jonovision_man wrote:
Banane wrote:lovin the cheesy coverage!

Ugh... it was brutally cheesy.

But.. you gotta remember it's for the masses Jono.. the hard-core Triathlete followers would have watched on-line..

Ratings, ratings..

But fromage is good... watching the Kona coverage years ago is what turned the light bulb on for me

trixiee · Postby **trixiee** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:27 am

bicycle.boy wrote:I forgot to remind my buddy to record and digitize it, and he forgot to record. Anyone else have the technology to provide me with a digital copy?

Me too! I missed the first half hour (stupid Christmas shopping :wink:

) and didn't bother taping it. I would really appreciate a downloaded version!

दिवंगत · Postby **दिवंगत** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:12 am

I have it on my PVR but have no idea how I might get it off that and onto a DVD. If someone can tell me how to do that, I'll gladly make copies and send them out to whoever wants one.

The other option is check listings - I am sure that NBC runs the show twice.

jonovision_man · Postby **jonovision_man** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:18 am

MINI-T wrote:
jonovision_man wrote:Ugh... it was brutally cheesy.

But.. you gotta remember it's for the masses Jono.. the hard-core Triathlete followers would have watched on-line..

Ratings, ratings..

But fromage is good... watching the Kona coverage years ago is what turned the light bulb on for me

I guess it's a good infomercial for the sport... I just wish we'd get something more like race coverage.

Maybe OLN will pick it up one year and cover it start to finish??

jono

purdy65 · Postby **purdy65** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:29 am

I wonder how much time Christy really lost with the flat tire. They made it seem like forever, but I'm guessing it wasn't really that much.

She is one amazing athlete though!

Lisa

scrumhalfgirl · Postby **scrumhalfgirl** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:37 am

purdy65 wrote:I wonder how much time Christy really lost with the flat tire. They made it seem like forever, but I'm guessing it wasn't really that much.

She is one amazing athlete though!

Lisa

I believe it was about 10 minutes.

bnn · Postby **bnn** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:19 pm

jonovision_man wrote:
MINI-T wrote:
jonovision_man wrote:Ugh... it was brutally cheesy.

But.. you gotta remember it's for the masses Jono.. the hard-core Triathlete followers would have watched on-line..

Ratings, ratings..

But fromage is good... watching the Kona coverage years ago is what turned the light bulb on for me

I guess it's a good infomercial for the sport... I just wish we'd get something more like race coverage.

Maybe OLN will pick it up one year and cover it start to finish??

jono

17 hours worth? no way....

I'll be encouraging my spectators to spend the time I'm on te bike to drink in the beer gardens, have a big lunch, get a patio seat to watch the run but even someone devoted to the sport can't spectate for 17 hours!

It's purely cheesey coverage but IM has so many stories it's a little hard not to be over the top

LadyV · Postby **LadyV** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:25 pm

That Navy Seal guy (also on cover page of Runners' World as one of the 2008 heroes) sure is a hottie :whistle:

One question: what is with these long white socks - are these some kind of 'support stockings' ?

I actually thpought this year was not as cheesy as usual...noone crawling or rolling across the finish line, and they did mention the swim part and showed 1 or 2 minutes of it :roll:

I really think that Ironman triathletes are the greatest athletes in the world, yet from an outsider viewpoint, Ironman looks like the most horrible experience one can have in this human body...

jonovision_man · Postby **jonovision_man** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 5:06 pm

LadyV wrote:One question: what is with these long white socks - are these some kind of 'support stockings' ?

Compression socks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4136018.stm#socks

jono

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