I visited New Orleans this past weekend to watch part of the Ochsner Ironman New Orleans 70.3 that I had signed up for, but decided not to run.\u00a0 My plan was to go to the finish line and watch all of the pros – something I had not seen live before.\u00a0 When I arrived at the finish line at 10:30, they were still setting\u00a0up, so I decided to walk to Esplanade drive\/street\/ave to find a nice shady spot.\u00a0 Finally around 10:50 a.m., the leader, a Candadian man came through.\u00a0 It’s so weird to see someone running a roughly 6 minute mile because it didn’t look like he was going that fast.\u00a0 A couple of minutes later, I saw Chris McCormack come through.\u00a0 Slowly but surely more and more athletes ran by.\u00a0 Surprisingly, most New Orleans residents had no clue what was going on.\u00a0 Most asked if there was a parade.\u00a0 And there weren’t very many spectators.\u00a0 I could only count myself and maybe four others for the first hour.\u00a0 I finally had to pack it in as I was getting sunburned and hungry.\u00a0 Given that I hadn’t done any workouts that day, I felt guilty just thinking about going to get shelter and food \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Arriving home on Monday, I looked up the results of the race.\u00a0 I have to say I was quite surprised to find that many participants finished well over 8 hours.\u00a0 I thought there was a cutoff?\u00a0 I could have finished in 10 hours!<\/p>\n
Race results for the race are posted at www.onlineraceersults.com<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the first time that I have seen this site.\u00a0 Usually results are at results.active.com.\u00a0 It would be nice to have a single repository of race results, not to mention the ability to see more than just chip\/clock times.<\/p>\n