Thursday, we were supposed to do spin and swim, but the pool was being refilled. So, Dustin did one spin class and I did two (which is about 35 miles on a bike going nowhere, but it's a good workout). Dustin was still getting over a head cold. Friday, we were off. Saturday morning, we ran 5 miles, and then Sunday morning, we met Megan and did Wonderwood Expy to the ferry and rode that across to Hecksher Drive and met Tim and rode out to Fernadina Beach. It was so beautiful riding by the ocean many times and the weather was perfect (except for it was windy on the way back). We rode a total of 56 miles (our race distance for May) and timed the departure of the ferry perfect both times! Then, Dustin and I ran 5 miles afterwards and felt pretty darn good. We drank a lot of gatorade, water, did gus, electrolyte pills, ate clif bars, so I think we did pretty good nutrition wise. However, the half race coming up in May will be 1.2 mile swim before, plus 8 more miles at the end, so I'm thinking I will need to ingest more calories for sure! I was hungry at the end. Then, we met Megan and the World of Nations event at Metro Park and had a lot of good food from different nations. Now, we are hopefully going to finally send out our email for the Janus Charity Challenge and try to get more people to donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
It is Ironman eve and everything is going great! We are sitting here in our hotel room of Fairfield Inn and they have wireless internet in the rooms so I'm typing on my laptop. Dustin's shaving, Dave is drinking a beer, Jeff and Jen are being assigned duties, Paula, Kendra's sister is getting last minute tips for cheering from Kendra. Now Jeff, Jen, and Dave's pizza just got here. Kendra, Dustin and I already ate our microwaved pasta about 6 PM, while we hung out by the indoor pool with some of the kids from our group. By group, I mean the best freakin cheer squad ever!!!! We had our lunch at Panera bread earlier at 12 and met up with most of Dustin's family and my parents old friends' Greg and Mary who they hadn't seen in 10 years and their daughter, Nikki who lives here in Madison who we grew up together! She is going to be a part of our cheering squad tomorrow along with Bill, Gwen, Jeff, Dave, Jen, Walt, Judy, Becky, Ken, Don, Carolyn, Shelley, Braxton, ...
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