Every year since 1996, Marine Major Bill Conner has applied for a lottery slot to the Ironman World Championship race in Kona, Hawaii. Every April since 1996, Conner has logged onto the Ironman.com website on the day the lottery selections were announced, hoping to see his name on the list. But on April 15th, 2008, Conner did not visit the website. Assigned as both Executive Officer and Operations Officer for a battalion at Camp Fallujah in Iraq, Conner was fully occupied with his duties. The Ironman lottery application he'd filled out months before had slipped his mind.  Read the story »

Like thousands of other Ford Ironman Hawaii lottery entrants, Susan Clavin logged onto her email account one day last April with a mixture of nervousness, hope and curiosity.  Read the story »

With defending men's champion Craig Alexander set to take on a competitive men's field that includes Chris Legh, Richie Cunningham and Canadian favorite Brent McMahon, this weekend's Ironman 70.3 Newfoundland promises to be quite a race. That'll be at the front of the race, but you can be sure that the rest of the athletes competing on Sunday will enjoy a spectacular race experience, too. Defending women's champion, Mirinda Carfrae, last year's winner of the Foster Grant Ironman World Championship 70.3, will take on Canadian Sara Gross and Scotland's Catriona Morrison in the women's race.  Read the story »