IMCDA is now just one week away. It seems like it has taken forever to get to this final week! My preparations have been great. I have recovered well from that bug I had and hope to be close to 100% for race day. Wahoo!! I've been focusing on resting and recovering this past week and it all seems to be coming together well. I have felt strong in all 3 disciplines. Beyond triathlon, I've been preparing for our vacation after. Glacier National Park, here we come! So what am I most concerned about in regards to the vacation? Beer and meats, duh! Seriously though, I will have a cooler filled with spirits (with plenty more ready to enter the cooler as needed) and a cooler filled with cuts of meats for some fine dining by the campfire.
After a long few months of watching my nutrition so closely, it will be nice to relax in a beautiful part of our country after Ironman and not concern myself with nutrition for a week :) The weather is looking great and we are going early enough that we should have our pick of campsites! I haven't looked forward to a vacation this much in some time. More than anything, I think that I'm just excited to spend some time simply hanging with my wife. Work and training has been so time consuming the past 4 to 5 months that we need some chill time.
Well, not much else to report at this point. I'm off for a short run soon and then will be cleaning up my bike and finishing my packing for the race and vacation. My speed concept is totally race ready with my race wheels now on. The machine looks amazing. I'll post some pics. After much debate, I decided to go with my 808 Firecrest rear as opposed to my Rolf disc. This is for many reasons, but primarily because the 808 has proven to be incredibly aero (close to the disc), is much lighter (whether mental or not I can feel this on the hills), and accelerates better than the disc (think corners and after hills, all of which CDA has plenty of). So I'll be running a 58m front wheel and the 808 rear. Later today I will be working out how to fit my spare tubular and tools under my seat. That should be fun!
OK, well thanks for checking in. Looking forward to getting out to Idaho and getting this race underway!
-T
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