Wednesday 8th October
Got up at about 5am this morning and had some breakfast. We decided to skip the swim this morning and got ready to go out on our bikes. Kona is so busy now compared to when we arrived,
there were literally hundreds of people by the swim start now and you can see that they are starting to build the transition areas up....this is all getting a bit too real now !
We head out along the Queen K Highway again, winds are a little stronger than the other day but definitely manageable. We are only out for 1 hour 30 minutes today which seems to go very quickly. We stop off in town so that I can get the deed of registration out the way. This all happens at the King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel, I sign all the forms, get my wrist band and race pack and finally pick up my little goodie bag which is a pink TYR kit bag, in it there is a poster, a few gels, a bag of Granola, a programme, some Ironman perfume and a little cuddly toy (a duck...not quick sure of the significance of this!)
After registration I decide to pay the physio tent a visit as my glute & hamstring are feeling a little tight, (Kay I’m desperately missing you), I get seen by a girl called Michelle, she is from California, all the physios are flown out especially for this event. She loosened it up slightly and then stretched it out and said it was very tight and to keep lightly stretching it for the next 2 days!
Rode up to the Expo Village for a quick look as I had to buy some cycling gloves (forgot to bring mine out with me to Hawaii). Also paid a visit to the Triangle stand, these are the guys that run the Monaco 70.3 races and as that was my qualifying race they had a free gift for me, it was a t-shirt.
Went back to the condo and chilled out for the rest of the day, it feels like I am being really lazy at the moment and not doing enough but Nick keeps telling me that this is the last bit of my taper and it’s important not to do too much. It’s very hard though as you see so many of the athletes training so much and you can just get caught up in it all!
At about 5.30pm Nick wanted to go for a swim at the pool so I joined him , not for a swim though as I just lay on one of the sun loungers overlooking the sea and watched the sun go down – it was absolutely breathtaking.
Made dinner and watched a film called Mississippi Burning, not exactly light viewing but a great film!
In bed & asleep for 8.30pm.
there were literally hundreds of people by the swim start now and you can see that they are starting to build the transition areas up....this is all getting a bit too real now !We head out along the Queen K Highway again, winds are a little stronger than the other day but definitely manageable. We are only out for 1 hour 30 minutes today which seems to go very quickly. We stop off in town so that I can get the deed of registration out the way. This all happens at the King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel, I sign all the forms, get my wrist band and race pack and finally pick up my little goodie bag which is a pink TYR kit bag, in it there is a poster, a few gels, a bag of Granola, a programme, some Ironman perfume and a little cuddly toy (a duck...not quick sure of the significance of this!)
After registration I decide to pay the physio tent a visit as my glute & hamstring are feeling a little tight, (Kay I’m desperately missing you), I get seen by a girl called Michelle, she is from California, all the physios are flown out especially for this event. She loosened it up slightly and then stretched it out and said it was very tight and to keep lightly stretching it for the next 2 days!
Rode up to the Expo Village for a quick look as I had to buy some cycling gloves (forgot to bring mine out with me to Hawaii). Also paid a visit to the Triangle stand, these are the guys that run the Monaco 70.3 races and as that was my qualifying race they had a free gift for me, it was a t-shirt.
Went back to the condo and chilled out for the rest of the day, it feels like I am being really lazy at the moment and not doing enough but Nick keeps telling me that this is the last bit of my taper and it’s important not to do too much. It’s very hard though as you see so many of the athletes training so much and you can just get caught up in it all!
At about 5.30pm Nick wanted to go for a swim at the pool so I joined him , not for a swim though as I just lay on one of the sun loungers overlooking the sea and watched the sun go down – it was absolutely breathtaking.
Made dinner and watched a film called Mississippi Burning, not exactly light viewing but a great film!
In bed & asleep for 8.30pm.
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