I saw it Karen, and I was happy that they showed that he did not make the cut off.
Some (well alot) of people will say "well he is still an Ironman, he did the distance".
But I totally disagree.
This is like every kid getting a trophy so no one gets their feelings hurt.

It was great that he put himself out there and tried, and showed a lot of courage for him to talk about it afterwards. Missing the cut off IMO is like going 132 miles (out of 140.6) and having to drop out due to illness. Yes, I know that one personally.
But the bottom line is that he did not make the cut off. He is not an Ironman. And he did not put it out there as if he was. He stayed the course and finished the distance, and I respect that. But what I respect more is what he did not say. And that was "I may not have made it in time, but I am still an Ironman."
Because technically he is not. And that is ok. As much as we all want to see people suceed, sometimes it doesn't happen.
And I am sick and tired of shows like BL glossing over failures as if they didn't happen.
I guess they learned their lesson after the marathon debacle a couple of seasons ago.
The one peeve I have, is that I guarantee he did not magically get a lottery slot. I hate that IM gives out celebrity or "feel good" slots for the nbc cameras. Yeah it plays well for the show, but I hate that just because you have a story you can call up and they'll hand you a golden ticket.

But yeah, I thought it was cool that two guys had done an IM (or long distance) tri. And the one guy coming in under 13 hours?! WOW!!