639

That's my number for the Ironman.  There are over 330 folks in just my age category and over 2400 total participants signed up for the event. It's going to be a massive amount of humanity hitting the lake for that swim.

Since we're at the 10 day mark, I've been able to see some weather predictions and it looks good right now at partly cloudy and mid 80s BUT there is rain for Wednesday and Thursday of next week.  This concerns me because it could stay or not come until Saturday and Sunday.  I'm hopeful the weather will be good.  Riding in the rain just sucks so doing a 112 miles in it would be brutal.

I have another day off today in the current taper program.  My appetite is on taper as well.  I actually felt full after dinner on Tuesday night and full last night after dinner.  It was a weird feeling because usually I eat snacks up until bedtime and I didn't need to eat any snacks last night.  My weight it staying the same after my weigh in at the gym after my swim on Wednesday morning.

I keep doing little things to prepare for the race.  I've printed out some inspirational material to help calm me down when I get antsy waiting for the race to happen next.  I have also slowly gathering stuff I'm going to take on the trip.

I actually getting a little worried about my bike.  During yesterday's ride, I just didn't feel comfortable for most of the ride or fresh.  I was hoping it's just because it's taking me forever to warmup but it still not the same way my legs felt before the half ironman in Florida.  I still have 10 more days of taper to really get the legs into form for the bike.

The run feels good though.  I'm getting pretty comfortable with the pace and now I'm just hopeful I got enough miles in for the endurance required for that last 10k of the marathon.

It's only 11 days til Elena starts first grade. It's weird that they start before Labor day even though they don't get out of school until June.  I guess it's because they have all these lame teacher days and other weird days off that I never got when I was a kid.  All I can say is I was robbed!!  Kids have it easy these days with the internet, ipods, video games, and a bazillion cable channels.

Only 10 more days...egads!