R a c e E v e


What can I say......its 11 hours until the cannon goes off for Ironman Lake Placid.

It poured all day and checking in the bike was a mess along with all the gear bags. Ran into some of the pros like Zymstev and Andrei Yastrebov at the Timex press brief as well as Kevin Grogan (aka KGrog) on Slowtwitch. Even with all this rain the weather for race day looks awesome.Partly cloudy in the low 70's.

The last 2 days have been very cool as Placid is hallowed ground . Eric Heiden won his 5 Olympic Gold medals in the skating rink which is where the Finish line is. Then there's the Miracle on Ice in 1980 when team USA beat the Russians in Ice Hockey in the arena next to T1....so if thats not enough to jack you to extremes, you're in the wrong sport baaaby !

Friday was the Gatorade swim where I met up with some other ST's from around the country.
Got to meet RRoof,Rec10carbon,and Dan from Chicago.

We grabbed breakfast along with Matt Mallet and RSum716 at the Black Bear. Always cool to meet other athletes you've known only thru the internet.

So I feel good. I'm loose , no more lingering quad tightness which bothered me a few days ago.
I've eaten well, I'm so hydrated I think I now know what you women feel like when you say " I'm retaining water".
I might have taken too easy a taper, but better that than coming in a little shelled. My fitness is deep enough so that shouldn't be a worry.

My crew has been awesome ! Ironman is NOT a individual effort !

I'm going to try to sleep, but I'm wwwwwwired so thats going to be tough. I guess my next entry will be the race report.

Thanks for the interest if you visit from time to time. Peace !