24 hours to go!

Friday 10th October

Woke at 5am and was very restless, got up and had breakfast. Feeling very sick this morning but think this is due to nerves and not the food I ate last night! I decide to look at the club forum and read all the lovely good luck wishes that have been posted by our club, I know that remembering these messages will make it easier for me tomorrow during the race when things start to hurt, so thanks guys!
At about 8am we biked into town to go and see the Endurance Travel guys to get the itinery for tomorrow, met up with a few people we knew and chatted for a while. After that we went for a short bike along the first bit of the run course along Alii Drive. 30 minutes later we are back at the condo and donning our trainers to go for a run, my glute & hamstring are still tight but I try to relax and forget about it. Our run lasts for only 15 minutes and then I grab my goggles and dash down to the pool to do a 10 minute swim. Apart from my butt everything else feels pretty good.
Nick has got a demo on the Argon 18 bike booked for this morning so he shoots off to do that and leaves me to organise my kit bags. I methodically stick stickers on things, clean goggles & sunnies and make sure that I have everything I need for the big day. Nick returns on the Argon bike to show me, it’s very nice, then he’s off again to return it back. I finish off my stuff like fixing my aero bottle to my bike and stick a few gels to the frame. I check everything again and am now ready to rock ‘n’ roll....well swim, bike, run!
Nick & I chill out for a few hours on the balcony, it doesn’t really seem that hot today (or is it that I am acclimatizing to the weather, I’ll probably be wearing a cardigan in the next few days!). By about 1.30pm I am starting to get very restless and find it hard to sit down for long. We leave the condo at 2.15pm and head down to transition to drop off my bike and gear. As we approach the area I can see that they are in the process of erecting the finishing line...god it’s really starting to hit home now that the race is actually tomorrow. I do start to feel a bit shell shocked and then see a friendly face from China, he is a Swiss guy and absolutely lovely (just turned 60 this year and does IM in around 10 hours), he is hoping to get a podium place here and I really hope he does.
Nick helps me go through all of my bags to make sure I have everything then I start the walk into transition, wow it is so organised, there are about 20 volunteers waiting to just check your helmet, etc and then you get a sticker put on your bike. After this I walked a little further and who should I see but Irene’s sister Petra, she is a volunteer out here and she helped me to rack my bike (even took a picture with her camera for me!) and then shows me around transition while dropping off my kit bags. She is going to there tomorrow and says she will make sure that she looks after me in transitions...I feel much better knowing that. I leave the transition area and make my way back to Nick who informs me he has just got another free t-shirt, this one is from Cervelo (he got one earlier from the Argon guys)....I told you free stuff it’s great!
We start to head back to the condo ready for our last supper and our last early night. We have dinner on the balcony tonight and I sit outside until it is pitch black (6.45pm) and finish off my blog for the day, so good night all and we shall see what tomorrow brings......