6 Months has flown by in a flash with alot to show for it. I leave tomorrow morning for Kona, HI. One week of tapering, dialing in the course and racer prep meetings. I'm just looking forward to taking in this AWESOME experience! There has been a lot of stress this last 2 weeks leading up to me leaving. But I have taken it one hurdle at a time, with Meredith being unbelievably supportive. And that is the one thing that has meant the most of these 6 months, the LARGE amount of support I have received from friends, customers, teammates and family.
I decided to end my long training months with an Olympic tri. Chad Fikes a team member of the Sugar Cycles Factory Team, asked me to join him a male relay team. I of course have been working for the LONG distance race and just viewed this shorter event as a great training day. And Chad having recently been married, is using this as a reentry into the race season. So having our running dropping out, I will do the swim and the run with Chad handling the bike. So a 2 man team going up against 3 men teams. Should a interesting day. And it was, we took 3rd place, with Chad winning the bike. That was a great pay off for the long training days. And now for the real pay off, 6 days to go! I'll keep you posted throughout the week.
