What do you want us to do?

1. Run Ali'i Drive in a g-string (oh that's right - John's already doing it!)

2. Challenge Norman Stadler to a 40km TT the day before the race

3. Run next to the leader and do a live interview through the energy lab

4. Bring home a rock from the Big Island

5. Pash Chrissie Wellington

1. Interviews, interviews and more interviews. Pro's, formere Epic campers, long time listeners, Albert on the raft etc etc.

2. Photo's, get them up here on Athlinks - we want a camp outside Lava Java and all the latest gossip.

3. Daily shows - Even if they're 15 minutes, we want a show live from the plane, and every day until you get back.

4. The "how many in fligh meals" challenge - can you get over 1.5 X the amount of meals that you're supposed to get. Bev's boyish good looks against John's calm reasoning and charm (buying meals off passengers is not allowed)

5. Print up IM Talk Flyers / Stickers and see where you can get them placed. Can you get a pro to stick one on their frame? Can you get the listeners to place them in the most unlikely locations and send in their photos?

Bonus 6th - John to sort out the prize draw goodie bag.

Super Bonus 7th - Bevan to fix it for me to win!

1. Tie Macca's shoe laces together in transition

2. Get a photo of yourselves in your compression gear at the airport

3. Swim with a shark fin on your back round the swim course on race morning

4. On race day hire a motorbike and disguised as bogus referee's, and peruse the bike course and DQ any drafting.

5. Announce to the worlds press that Felix is offering $1 000 000 dollars next year at Barcelona

1. Wear a red clown wig, red boa and black underwear and do the underwear run with the Tri-Fusion triathlon club ((Click for the Link ...) from Spokane, Washington. We can offer you nothing in exchange except a giant dinner.

2. Eat one of the giant cinnamon rolls at Lava Java.

3. Do a morning of interviews at the Ironman Medical Conference ((Click for the Link ...) where the world's top docs meet to talk about how to fix us.

4. Eat a peanut butter and guava sandwich in Havi.

5. You actually don't need to disguise as a bogus referee on race day. Just get big white sign with black letters that says "Media". And it's true, right?

1. Let's see the Mully in action: conduct video interviews!

2. Interview the Tri-gear reps at Kona

3. Its time to put WTC back on the spot and to make up for the lack of hard hitting questions during the last interview

4. Video the best and worst in transition

5. John to re-enact Van Vleurken's whtie-tri suit demonstration and scare Kona finishers half to death

1. Underwear run

2. Interview spectators hanging out at Lava Java on race day

3. Report on the best and worst dressed on race day in Kona

4. Walk around all day in what you would race in while covering the race, (trishorts, IMTalk jersey, timing chip, race belt, visor)

5. Get a picture with Nick from TRIJUICE.com

1. Convince a pro to wear an IM Talk jersey

2. Get a picture of you both with Van Vleurken in her white outfit post-race

3. Offer Mai-Tais as refreshments at one of the aid stations

4. Get photos with as many hot chick athletes as possible

5. Commit yourselves to racing Kona next year......

1. bevan in full compression gear on plane and in airport(s)

2. live stream from kona would be awesome

3. interview with crowie

4. interview athletes at the COH swim-up coffee bar

5. make fun of normann's belly button tattoo

1. Wear g-strings the whole time, not just the day of the underpants run. 2. Get IM Talk tattoes on your chests. 3. Hit on Chrissie! This will be done in g-strings after you get the tatooes. 4. Tackle the first guy to come into T2 and put him out of the race. 5. Run next to Craig Alexander for as long as you can (again, this must be done in g-strings).

1 Get Yvonne van Vlerken to do a live replay of her famous youtube video.

2 Float the coffees of Haiwaii boat out to the swim course so some of the slower athletes can stop in and grab a fresh cup during the race.

3 Challenge Mark Allen and Dave Scott to do a Sprint race rematch!

4 Interview the hottest female athlete based on Bevan and John's discretion.

5 Ride the bike course in wetsuits.

1: cycle from hilo to the top of mauna kea

2: jump of the cliffs at south point

3: do hill rps up waipio valley

4: collect green sand

5: interview hot chicks............

FYI guys, the IM medical conference is Sunday through Thursday, and not Friday. If you want I could probably get you an interview with medical director Dr. PZ Pearce , who is a friend of mine.

Can you catch on video the biggest possers on Ali Drive.

We're looking for people running @ tempo and above

Cruising on a P4 tricked out with Zipp everything

Inappropriate wearing of Lycra for non-training activites - e.g. Drinking coffee in a skin suit.

Person with the most m-dot merchadise on

etc etc

1 get on the live webcast for some IMtalk / sponsor publicity gotta think having you guys on could be squeezed in in the 10 plus hours coverage

2 do underpants run - its about participation and laughing at ourselves

3 review of expo standout items

4 interview peter reid and ask him is best all non IM marathon time (i think he did 2:35 in IM Austria)

5 hand out drinks and do some commentary near the energy lab on race day.

1. John to complete a training run with ipod playing non stop rap music, finishing with 'dont believe the hype' by public enemy

2. John and Bev hire a wedding outfit and get 'hitched' at the CoHawaii pontoon

3. Complete an edible tri: ems cookies, mulit COH espressos, gels

4. Underpant run

5. 100 chin ups each on the overhead bin during the flight across (sorry, pre arrival!)

Guys - Might be a little late for this, but in the spirit of the Jack Black movie Be Kind Rewind, re-enact and record some of the classic moments from the Ironman across the years and post on YouTube. There are so many moments you could go for:

- The moment the iron war race was won on the run (including some retro running gear if you can track it down);

- Normann flipping his lid trying to get change his tyre;

- Chris Legh collapsing; etc etc

Would be even better if you could get some of the athletes to make cameo appearances!

Ideas to promote IMTALK in Hawaii

1. Try and get on the Ironman TV coverage as many times as possible by stretching in background shots wearing your IMTALK jerseys.

2 Have John collide into Norman as he exits T1 while wearing his IMTALK jersey.

3 Pay the 1 legged, 1 armed, blind, cancer survivor and Iraq veteran whom the TV has selected as their tear jerker story line to wear an IMTALK jersey over their wetsuit during the swim. Its unlikely to affect their time much but great exposure for IMTALK.

4 At the pro press conference get Bevan ( while wearing his IMTALK jersey) to ask as many pros as possible"" Do they wax or shave? " then recommend IMTALK branded facial moisturiser for race day.

5 Run down the finish chute with the winner wearing IMTALK jerseys, pretending to be their family or friends. Thus calling the WTC's bluff of whether they would really disqualify a competitor for having people finish down the chute with them. Just don't do it to Cameron or Terrenzo !

Hey everyone

I couldn't open a new discussion for some reason, the Google is down ;-) So post your answers to this weeks discussion here.

Here's this weeks discussion:

What would you do if you had to stop triathlon?

Kia Kaha

Bevan and John

Hmmm very topical, since Friday I've been contemplating retiring from competitive triathlon/ironman even though I'm riding and running faster than ever, which poses a real dilemna being so close to achieving my goal of the past 5 years! There are more important things I could do with my time, like spend more time with my wife and children, serve more around church, develop my business consulting practice, laze around while on holiday, play golf, and travel to Europe watching Cycle Tours. I'd still like to run Routeburn and Abel Tasman Coastal Classic, cycle tours, and experience the Original Ironman Hawaii Revisited in 2013 for my 50th, but feel as though my body is breaking down and don't want to push so far immobilised too young :(

If I had to stop triathlon....

2 scenarios - Physically wasn't able to do triathlon - well based on the CAF guys, that would have to be pretty serious - so rule that one out.

Second scenario - I chose to stop doing triathlon - Probably go back to running and indeed I may take next year off Ironman to do a multi-stage running race instead. I'd love to say drink beer and sit on my arse but I do that anyway. I see a lot of people moving into more multi-sport challenges now as a way of mxing things up and keep things interesting or picking big single sport challenges such as swimming the channel.

I made a decision 4 years ago to stop playing golf, was playing most days, decent handicap and trying to compete at IM as well, i wanted to break 10 hours ai Germany and the 2 didn't go hand in hand. So I just gave it up, broke ma heart lol!!! So if I had to give up triathlon I would go back to golf, and to keep fit go back to another sport I played, hockey, team atmosphere and social side almost come close to triathlon. But as Fegan says, physically, it would be hard to find a way to stop watching the CAF guys.

Get myself a serious case of depression and put on a lot of pounds.

It took me about 5 years of searching to find the next big thing in my life and now that I've found it I would be completely gutted if I couldn't train for IM. Having being injured for 3 months now suck enough, let alone never being able to train again.

But of course in the end I would get over it and start the search again for that next big thing.

Hey guys,

If I had to stop triathlons I would cross country ski and snow shoe during winter months, mountain bike during the fall and spring months, and for the summer months do some adventure racing (if that doesn’t count as triathlon).