If you find yourself suffering with family, lousy presents or too much NBA on TV this Christmas Day, worry not, for you’ll be able to watch others put themselves through suffering far worse than any overly-talkative aunt.
Human Suffering, In Race Form: Ironman Triathlon To Re-Air Christmas Day
↵The 2009 Ford Ironman World Championship (the one from Kona, Hawaii) will be re-aired on Thursday, at 9:00 PM EST on Universal Sports. If you’re not familiar with the Ironman, it goes like this: a 2.4-mile swim in the Pacific (wetsuits not allowed) followed by a 112-mile bike ride through lava fields that whip wind against the competitors and then finally a 26.2-mile run (that’s a marathon) in Hawaii’s heat. It was originally held, like most insane competitions, to settle an argument about who was the best athlete amongst a group of Navy Seals.
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↵The world’s best do it in a little more than eight hours; for the amateurs, the cutoff time is 17 hours.
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