Ironman World Championships this Saturday

The biggest sport event of the year is about to happen in a few days. That's right, the Ironman World Championships.

Lots of great coverage can be found at http://www.ironman.com/ every day up until the actual race.

My picks:

Women
1. Chrissie Wellington
- Can anyone touch her? If they let her get away on the bike forget about it. She has never lost an Ironman race and it will be very tough on the field to make this her first. Too bad Samantha McGlone has been suffering from Achilles (another one bites the dust, welcome to the club Sam) and has not been running for 2 months. She is supposed to be getting married in November so she will rest up and come back with a vengence in 2009. Like me!! :)

You need to keep an eye out for Yvonne van Vlerken who set the new Ironman world record at Roth this summer (8:45:48) and Erika Csomor who was only less than two minutes behind that (also breaking the previous record held by the great Paula Newby-Fraser).

Men
1. Chris McCormack
- Macca better have some kind of lead off the bike or Craig Alexander might run him down with that scary run leg of his. Watch out for Andy Potts, Normann Stadler and Faris Al-Sultan too.

This should be a very interesting race. There are a ton of fast gals and guys who can do some serous damage if they are at 100%.

I'll be glued to my computer screen all day watching all the live streaming footage.