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2005 Competitor Magazine Endurance Sports Awards Photos by Chris Kostman, Lisa Bliss, and Lana Jane, February 4, 2006
The fourteenth annual Endurance Sports Awards, held February 4, 2006 at Sea World, was a very special evening organized to recognize a wide variety of endurance athletes while benefiting the Challenged Athletes Foundation, the Official Charity of AdventureCORPS. Laurie and I were pleased to share the AdventureCORPS table with some of the very best people we know: Mike Angelos, Lisa and David Bliss, Pam Foye-Needle and Scott Needle, Dan Dominy, and Lana Jane. Thanks to all of them for joining us! The evening began with all of these good-looking athletes in tuxes and sexy dresses winning armloads of stuffed animals in the Sea World arcade. It's a fun time to hang out, reconnect, and make new friends. Then we all headed into the Nautilus Pavilion for the awards program itself. This was well organized and was emceed by Bob Babbitt, the publisher of Competitor Magazine and co-founder of C.A.F., along with Mike Reilly, the "Voice of the Ironman." They had a great stage with jumbotron screens on both sides. A video montage of the 2005 endurance races in review was played. There were quite a few awards given, nearly all of them preceded by a one to five minute video clip about the recipient. Truly, it was a very slick and fun presentation. It was particularly neat to be there because 2005 Kiehl's Badwater Ultramarathon winner Scott Jurek received the "Runner of the Year" award. |
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