Crazy Day Friday

Marty is going to love this one :))) Its not less than one week to showtime. I'm ready and not nervous yet. Trying to get lots of sleep and rest and so far its working out. I have a busy couple of days on Monday and Tuesday before we fly out on Wednesday so I guess I should start to think about packing soon :)

I had an uneventful week of training. Lots of rest and recovery. I had a couple of easy swims that felt solid. I did have a bike power test that sort of failed. I went out at what I thought I might be able to hold and I was dead wrong. I went out way too hard and died. That is okay. I have a goal next year to maintain 300 watts for 20 minutes and get my power to weight ratio to 4. I've got some work to do to get there but its realistic.

Back to Friday....the goal of the day was to drive to Elite in Philly to drop off my bike. Load the car and my bike on my roof rack. I had to make a quick pit stop at the itp office and drove my car into a low covered parking garage. Oops, I forgot I had a bike on top. If it was about 2 inches higher, I would have cleared it. So I hear this thump and look out my rear view mirror to see my NEW bike go flying off the back. Sue panicked but I was calm. I was on my way to Elite so if anything was broken, those are the guys to take care of things. A broken brake lever and that's about it. A few bruises and now its battle tested to take on Ironman. Anyway, the guys will check it out closely to make sure everything is fine. I'm not worried. The guys at Elite are meticulous.

So, Sue and I leave ITP and head onto 95 and only get a few miles until traffic comes to a complete stop in both directions in Stamford. There were about 20 police cars that stopped traffic north and southbound. We were 5 minutes too late. We were a few hundred yards away from what turned out to be the end of a high speed chase, shooting, threatening of suicide, and armed suspect. Police surrounded this guy's truck and had their guns and rifles drawn negotiating with him to get out of his truck via cell phone. They brought out the swat team and even drove an armoured tank onto 95. The dude finally surrendered and we were delayed a good hour and traffic was backed up for many, many miles in both directions.

Team mossman had their annual saugatuck swim yesterday. You can choose from 3.5mi, 2.5mi, or 1.75mi or something close to that. Water temp was in the high 50's. marty....don't worry, I didn't swim. I'm not that crazy. Sue and I just went down to see some friends swim. Definitely some hypothermia going on. What seems crazy to me is that there were 3 people swimming that are racing IM Florida on Saturday. One girl is doing her first IM and had a cold. HUH???

Sue gave me a great massage yesterday and my body is feeling ready to go. We fly out Wednesday.