Shooting the IRONMAN in Kona, HI.

My good friend Ken Herkes
hired me to come over and shoot
for the awards show video.

These are just a few images from video.

(click to enlarge)

The annual pre-race day underwear run!

They started lining up at 5am to get their numbers.

Filtering into the water for the start.

Here is the swim start.
The race start's with a 2.4m swim.

The first person was out in 48:51.

The bike corral.

Everything for riding must be on your bike and ready
for the 112m ride.

Heading out of town.

The turn in Hawi.

Heading back.

YES, it was hot and humid!

50mph wind gusts blew riders off the road.
This rider almost hit me!

You can see the white caps on the water near Hawi.

Steve and Ken slaving away in the edit room.

You end up running 26.2m.
Tim DeBoom is the winner at 8h:31m:18sec.

This is my favorite shot with Tim and the media.

Brown, from New Zealand finished 2nd.
15min. behind DeBoom.
He's talking to his expectant wife on the phone.
(If you look to the right in the background
You can see Ingrid shooting.)

1st, 2nd and 3rd place.

A lot of racers collapsed at the end.

Thanks Ken! I can't wait to do it again next year.

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