One more sleep
Well tomorrow I pack up the car and head to Boise. I still haven’t for sure decided I should race, but at this point I’ll take my stuff out there, plan to advil up, tape up the arm, wrap it in an arm cooler and wetsuit and get into the freezing water and see what happens.
Or maybe I’ll change my mind again, rip the aerobars off my bike and sit on the couch and eat donuts and cry.
This morning I did try swimming with it. To be honest it hurts to swim. I’m just hoping to limp through the swim at a one armed pace. Once on the bike I’ll stay on my elbows and hopefully out of trouble. Watch my watts. Drink my bottles. If I make it as far as the run I should be good to go.
So, tomorrow I drive to just past Reno. Friday the rest of the way to Boise. Patty and Kelly arrive out there by plane Friday night. And on Saturday afternoon I race. I’ll post my bib number here. You can follow it on ironman.com. My wave starts at about 2:30 Mountain time.
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In other news I’m hoping to blog as I travel, so this is also an experiment in writing a blog post from the iPad.
The above photo was taken with an iPhone and the transferred wirelessly to the iPad. The post was written with BlogPress.
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Safe Travels! I’m excited about your race! I think you’ll make it though the swim as long as you just go super easy. Time doesn’t matter, go with the attitude of finishing. Besides, it’s your first HIM and if you go out there and kill yourself by pushing too hard, you won’t enjoy the day and might not want to come back again….but with an easier pace you’ll not only enjoy the day more, you’ll be destined to return, because you will know you can do so much better…you know that’s why I went back and did IMAZ again….I was better than my first time showed that I was
And you know, you’re capable of a better swim time than what you will likely have with your one arm…so take it easy and you know we’ll be cheering for you : ) Go Peter Go!!!!