well here we are again- IMC 2

[GLC1968]

How exciting! Good luck to you both!

[Tri Girl]

Yippee!!!! Good luck to both of you!! Will be checking in on you and rooting for you.

I'm doing an iron distance tri in 4 weeks. My training has not been what it was last time, so I'll be chasing the 17 hour cutoff the whole day- but I plan on having a great time. And I know you will, too!!! Enjoy the day and have a GREAT experience! It's your celebration day for all those long hours of training. Enjoy your parade!

[sgf726]

Good Luck!

[salsabike]

Bon courage and have fun! I'll be checking in on you guys and thinking about you.

[Pika]

everyone..Mike and I drove to Penticton today and have checked in to our motel- we splurged and got a motel right on the strip in front of the finishing mile..it will be nice because we can walk to the start and finish..though having to pass the motel 4 times before the finish may prove to be too tempting

It looks to be perfect weather and you can definitely feel the excitement in the air already..all sorts of hard bodies wandering around- everyone looking super fit..( I feel like a bit of a fraud..)...

Oh well,.. keeping the mantra- fun and fitness... and besides it is beautiful and sunny in the Okanagan- what can be better than that

We are off to "panic shop" for new tubes and some groceries..they have a BBQ here so we can cook our own meals which is great.

[Veronica]

Have a great day and enjoy the day.

Veronica

[Pika]

Thanks V - I am trying hard to enjoy everything but some days it is sooo hard.

We woke up to another beautiful sunny day and decided to take our bikes for a quick spin along skaha lake- it is the first 10 miles or so of the bike course.

Along the lake the road is narrow, windy with no shoulder- lake on one side and steep hills on the other...beautiful but a bit sketchy with loads of cyclists and cars. So I am riding along and I see ahead a fawn comes up out of the lake - I am thinking wow-how cool is that..I slowed right down but didn't stop- I look ahead and there is a car coming the other way...well everything happened so fast all I know is the fawn was hit right in front of me. We stopped the fawn did manage to run off the road after being hit but a guy behind us thought its legs were broken- another car stopped and called the conservation officers- (the people that hit the fawn were fine and no damage there)We kept riding for a short time but I was still pretty shaken so we cut it short- on the way back the conservation officer was there and told us he was waiting to get his rifle( long story there) and was going to put it down
I was hoping that because it managed to get off the road it might be ok...I know we have a million deer around here but I was still sad that it had to be killed but am happy that the conservation officer was able to stop it from having an even worse prolonged death.

On an entirely different note in our panic shopping yesterday in the bike shop I decided to buy some different "butt buttr" this stuff was called Hooha ride glide- made for women by women...The funniest thing was how my husband refused to walk around the bike shop with that in his hand(my hands were full with other stuff so we had to trade..water bottles for "hooha cream" ..anyway I will be going back to the usual stuff I think..I mean really- who puts eucalyptus and peppermint in something that is going to be next to a mucosal layer of skin??? Do I really want my "girlie bits" as they say to be numb before I even start my ride??how ridiculous...

Going off to register ..and shake off the morning..
Tam