Quote Originally Posted by firenze11 View Post
I loved at the end when the 72 year old crossed and the narrator said something like "she's 72. How old are you?" and when the one man finished and the narrator said "you survived the creepy" because he thought being out there at night was so creepy.
There was an older woman (60s?) that finished the Ironman Coeur d'Alene... her grandchildren were cheering her on, letting her know how much longer she had to finish. What a trooper. One foot in front of the other... she made it in time, her whole family there to cheer her on. (Makes me teary just to think about it - what an AWESOME grandma )

The "survived the creepy" guy was funny. They sure did a good job of making it look creepy! It didn't occur to me how soon the sun goes down when they do the race, people finishing 11-12 hours were already in the dark.

I really felt for the guy who had to stop and walk. That moment you make the decision to stop running... and the walking. It's SO hard to start running again after you start walking. (I felt less for him when he still finished 15th, but hey )

The look on so many of those faces after they finish... if you're at all an sympathetic person, you really feel for them. It's hard to feel sympathy for "you're going to have to carry me out of here on a stretcher at the finish line" but I hope they know how to push to their limits and not to the danger zone.

Maybe not superhuman... but it takes a certain something-something (dedication? commitment? crazy? ) to do that.