I'm at home wearing my Hawaiian shirt, Hawaiian pizzas ready for the oven, Pina Coladas and beers in the fridge and the laptop hooked up to the big screen ready to stream the coverage off the ironman.com website!
I'll be paying extra special attention this year as I really want to be at the other end of the webcast stream this time next year!
Not that we haven't got a personal interest in this year's event. Our mate Savaloy (or Matt Malloy as some people call him for some reason) is there competing for the 2nd year running. Sav's a bit of a beast and I reckon he'll be gunning for sub-9 in a few hours time.
Kona is the pinnacle of most of us triathletes' sporting career. I know and can appreciate the cynical view that here is a World Championship run by WTC that you can only qualify for by spending a large amount of cash to do one of WTC's regional events. If you are good and/or lucky enough to qualify, you still need to spend another large amount of cash to enter the Kona event, then pay for flights, accommodation, etc, etc, etc. It's a huge money spinner for WTC, but people sign up and pay for it nonetheless - me included. When I do make it, it'll probably be a one-off I think but I will enjoy every second of the experience!
After I've been and done Kona, I'll probably only return there when Rach qualifies! :)
Looking forward to the Facebook and Twitter banter later, it's going to be a long night - better crack open a beer and get warmed up!!
TTFN & Aloha!
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