Saturday

hey mom, they gave you that tacky helmet!? -ashby

well, bike and transition bags are in place, everything is on bedroom floor for tomorrow morning, I've got my plan for breakfast and nutrition, about an hour before i start to try to go to bed/sleep. I guess this is what I've been waiting for all along.  I feel rested (finally) and ready (well, that's relative, isn't it).  Peter and I just went out on the deck to have a half glass of wine and enjoy the outdoors.  He said to me, laughing, "it's like one day a year Karen gets whatever she wants, but the next day she has to do an Ironman."  yeah, that just about sums it up!!!!  So tomorrow....what do I plan to do?  I plan to go out there and not get kicked in the head, eat my nutrition and not get too cold, be very friendly to whoever I can, go for a really long bike ride on my perfectly tuned cervelo, then go running and probably also walking for the remainder of the day.  I think this most likely will be my first ironman finish after dark, so I'm considering the joy of coming into town after dark, but not too long after dark.  I want to soak it all in, I want to enjoy Canada and the magnificence of BC and the down to earth nature of people in this region, and finally, I want to enjoy the love of my family that has come so far with me and had a fabulous week here in one of my favorite places.

their energy is replacing mine!!!! this is a good thing.

the peach!