All I can say is "Holy %@#$" there's only 9 days to go...I had a great run this morning, as the sun was coming up, the fog was coming up off the ponds near my house and it was very calm and still. It was the kind of morning you wish every morning was like.
I was thinking about everything we've put into this race and I thought, in honor of that I'd do my very own "12 Things about IronMan"
So here goes...
12: 12 months since we got up at 2:45 to drive to Madison to stand in line in the rain to write our names on a piece of paper then turn around and drive home.
11: 1,100 (eleven-hundred) plus miles I have run this year already in preparation for this race.
10: 10 visits to the Chiropractor
9: 9 trips to Brainerd, Hugo, Hinkley, Wyoming and Forest Lake for long bike rides.
8: 8 peanut butter (actually almond butter) sandwiches I will pack to eat on the bike leg of the race.
7: 7-plus hours we spent riding from Hinckley to Carlton, Minnesota on our longest (112 mile) training ride this summer.
6: 6 trips to the bike shop
5: 5 cartridges of CO2 I will carry on the bike
4: 4 pair of running shoes I've gone through this year getting ready for the IronMan.
3: 3 iPods I bought this training season - one a casualty of getting caught in the rain, one stopped working for an unknown reason and one (knock on wood) that still works!
2: 2 lost toenails this summer.
1: 1 singular, all-important focus this year...finishing this race. It all comes down to this.
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