A 35-year old, non-athletic mother of a teen son who went AWOL from summer camp bonds with him as she decides to enter the Ironman Triathlon for real.
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Title: Challenge of a Lifetime (TV Movie 1985)
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| Penny Marshall | ... | Nora Schoonover | |
| Richard Gilliland | ... | Will Brodsky | |
| Jonathan Silverman | ... | Steven Schoonover | |
| Mary Woronov | ... | Mary Garritee | |
| Paul Gleason | ... | John Schoonover | |
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James Bergeson | ... | Donald Turnquist |
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Bart Conner | ... | Mark Wilson |
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Nancy Hogshead-Makar | ... | (as Nancy Hogshead) |
| Cathy Rigby | ... | Virginia (as Cathy Rigby-McCoy) | |
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Dave Scott | ||
| Mark Spitz | ... | Brad Harris, TV announcer | |
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Jim Lampley | ... | Announcer |
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Anne Simon | ... | Announcer |
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Greg Monaghan | ... | Jay Redmond |
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Dorothy Dells | ... | Dr. Jackson |
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Nora Scoonover is 35, divorced, in debt and going nowhere when her 16 year-old son, Steven, runs away from camp and asks to spend the summer with her. Together they decide that she will enter the Ironman Triathlon competition in Hawaii, although she has not done any running since high school. The experience brings them together. Written by Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>
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Written by Jerry Marcellino, Shanna Gray
Performed by Lynn Carey and Alan Graham
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The story of a woman who decides to enter the Ironman, probably the hardest triathlon in the world.
I liked it. It is not about being number one, in a competition with more than 1,000 contestants, it's about you facing yourself, about not stopping. Falling, and standing up to continue, to finish what you began. In the story, Nora is going nowhere, her son arrives home for the summer, and she begins the training with him, who helps and encourages her. Since I saw it, I've wanted to test myself ... but not that hard.