The Ironman experience

I love being here! It is so cool! I remember my first year doing an Ironman and it all felt so intimidating and scary. I feel much more confident this time and I feel like I belong here. I have earned the right to feel like i belong. I don't have that feeling of being huge compared to all the hard bodies that are wandering around here.

So today I did a quick 30 minute swim, then had breakfast while soaking in the Penticton rays. Then went to go stand in line for .... at least an hour to get my registration stuff. Came back to the room and decided to drive the course tomorrow instead of today. Watched a video about Lance Armstrong. The thing that I really liked about that is the very end where they say that the Tour de France is about life and that is what doing an Ironman is to me; it's about celebrating life.

Then tonight went for a quick little 30 minute run then just checked out my bike.

It is really hard not going out and working out. It is such an ingrained habit that its hard to not take advantage of the ambience and weather and do a real workout. I keep reminding myself that I am here for the race. There is absolutely nothing I can do to gain any fitness at this point! It's all there or not at this point. I only can make myself tired at this point. So all I have to do is remember how to swim bike and run at the pace I want to maintain. So that's what I'm doing in my workouts. Getting myself to race pace right from the outset.

Tomorrow is a morning swim, massage, breakfast and then a quick bike of the run course. Then out to drive the course. Then home to take it easy in the afternoon then to the meeting tomorrow night. Then bed early and sleep as late as possible on Saturday.

That's when the nerves will start settling in. Checking in my bike and gear and then the mandatory meeting. Then home to settle down and finish special needs bags and all my bottles that will go on my bike. Then Sunday its the test! WooHoo!

So today i weighed in about 19 pounds than my lowest race weight todate! So hopefully that will make a huge difference! I'm trying not to think beyond Sunday because I know that I will go through the post Ironman Glow and then the Post Ironman Blues. So no thinking beyond Sunday.... Stay in the moment and enjoy every minute I can.