Kona Lottery

Unless there are two Chris Parkers from Palatine, our very own Coredump is headed to Kona!!!

Congrats, Chris! 

Oh crap.

I guess I gotta decide between Kona and IMWI.  Crap.  Crap.  Crap.

-C 

Why not do both? You'll already be all trained up and have a significant endurance base underneath you to get it done. Check out this month's Triathlete magazine for a plan to do "back to back" IM races 3 weeks apart and then you can simply jerry-rig it to fit the 5 week span between the two races.

I am now officially jealous of my good friend Chris!

The 2 things I won in a lottery (Power Cranks and Ironman North America slot) I would trade in a sec for Kona....

You have, by far, won the coolest thing there is to win via Random Drawing (not including million dollars of cash of course) 

dude, go to kona, but work on that pasty Illinois tan first.   

I will actually know someone there!! whoo!

I'm going to Kona.  No question there. 

Can't wait to see you in the TV coverage of Kona!

Enjoy

Can I have your autograph first Chris?  That way if you do something famous like the guy that crashed his bike in '05 and had to walk it in....well, I'll be in on the ground floor!

LOL...congrats on the slot!!!   

Oh yeah....and cover your body with BT tattoos first....get us some exposure on national TV!

I guess the next question is, are you going to do IMWI as your validation race, or are we looking for a nice mid-season 70.3 now??

While Brett's got me pounding the pavement at IMCDA, you could be enjoying a challenging, windy, 70.3 here in lovely Texas...on the very same day!

It's actually pretty neat how this worked out...just last October you were posting awesome updates in your log.....as a spectator in Kona.  Did you imagine in your wildest dreams that this year, you'd be there in the middle of it all as a participant??