Home Stretch

I'm entering the home stretch for the Ironman.  Every so often I'll get nervous thinking about the upcoming race.  It was hard to watch the women's Olympic Marathon last night knowing I'll be doing that after being on the bike for almost 6 hours.   It was also hard to watch certain parts in the race where people would just pull up or amount of suffering.

I'm sure by now everyone know's the 100m Men's track and field final.  That was amazing.  I finally saw it this morning with the winner just relaxing in the last 15 meters to a world record time.  I've never ever seen that race where such a thing happened.  Never!!  I've watched every olympic 100m final since 1984.  It was just crazy.  See it here.

I packed up all my stuff.  God being gone for 10 days requires a few clothes.  It's going to be a chore to haul my luggage bag, bike case and backpack to the Metro this time.  It wasn't too bad for Florida but this time I have more stuff so it's heavier.  Oh well, I'm in no hurry tomorrow so I'll just take my time.

Again, in case ya missed it my bib number is #639 and you can track the race live on Ironman.com.  If you can't find it just look for the Ironman Canada link somewhere on the main ironman.com website.  I'm not sure how much blogging I'll be doing from Penticton but I hope to get in at least one last blog before the event.

One week to go!