A few more Ironman Hawaii 08 images

Amy wanted to swim out with me to the Coffees of Hawaii Espresso bar



The race is about to start and there is no more coffee time for the athletes



Craig Alexander won the big one



My buddy Timo Bracht finished 5h but was later disqualified



Chrissie Wellington won the women's event again



The finish line crowd is huge every year until midnight



We stayed at the finish line until midnight too



We had food at Island Lava Java pretty much every day



We used the last day to do a bit of sightseeing



Beware of low flying objects

My Kona swim

I swam out to the Coffees of Hawaii floating espresso bar today and Albert Boyce took this shot of me. :-)



Albert also shot this images of the dolfins who swam around the espresso bar. :-)

Getting ready for Hawaii

I'll be leaving very early Monday morning for Kona, Hawaii to report on the 30th anniversary Ironman Hawaii World Championships for slowtwitch.com. Amy will follow a few days later and has kindly volunteered to help out in the medical tent on race day. This will be my 9th trip to the big event and Amy's first one.