387 reasons

I wonder what it's like to have a perfect race? To put everything together on race day and actually perform to your full potential. It doesn't happen too often in Ironman. When it does, it's magical. Look at Chrissie's recent performance at Roth of Mark Allen's performance in the "Iron War" for examples. So what does it take to make this happen? Well, it comes down to planning and execution. And then, well you need to have lady luck on your side as well. How realistic is it to have a perfect race? I don't think very. Why? Well because in Ironman racing, things will go wrong...it's how you recover from these issues or moments, that determines how "perfect" of a race you will have.

I keep getting asked this week if I'm ready. If you know me than you don't need to ask :) The only thing that is holding me back right now is my asthma, but that seems to be getting better as race day approaches. So will I have a perfect race? I don't know. What I do know is I will leave it all out there. I'm going to race smart and race strong. I'm capable of going sub 5 on the bike, but I won't as it's not in my race plan. My entire race plan revolves around running a quality marathon. I will do everything in the first 6 hours to ensure that I'm in position to do so.

Well, everything else is going well. We have moved into our new place and are eagerly looking forward to our wedding the Saturday after the race. My Dad and I will be heading up early to Penticton this week, the rest of the *army* will follow on Saturday! I'm incredibly excited to be heading up to Canada this week and then to be getting married the week after!! Talk about a great week.

As far as the title of this post. I feel like when people ask me if I'm ready to race, I can give them a multiple number of reasons as to why. Discuss all the time spent away from family, all the days out on the road or in the pool when I didn't want to be there, watching my diet, etc. In total, there are plenty of reasons as to why I'm ready. It just so happens that 387 is my race number for Sunday. So maybe I have 387 reasons to be ready to go? Thanks for reading!!

-T