It's Friday evening in Ironman city (IMLP)! All of the athletes are officially in town and the atmosphere here is simply electric. The morning was spent dodging rain showers and even an occasionaly hail storm. I kid you not, it was hailing! I'm so glad the race was not today, because I really wouldn't have wanted to bike in a hail storm. None the less, that was then, and this is now. As the early afternoon came The four of us (Jen, my brother Rob, and my dad) were hungry so we decided to get something light at the Soulshine bagel. This place is seriously the Lava Java of Lake Placid.

Everything is organic and healthy and just plain good with a capital "G". Organic Green Mountain Coffee and the best Avocado bagel west of the Mississippi.

After lunch Jen and I had to fit in an easy 30 minute spin. We decided to bike almost one loop of the run course and even had some time to stop for a couple of Kodak moments.



Right after the rain the air was hot, humid, and hazzy but if you look close enough you can see the Olympic ski jumps off in the distance in the photo above.

We turned out a quick and easy 15 minute run right before we headed over to the Ironman Welcome Banquet. As always, the banquet was inspirational and encouraging.


So now we're back in the room relaxing. It's 8:30 and we're trying to decide if we need one last bedtime snack before we retire for the evening. On a media front, the newspaper that they hand out up here with all of the participants names in it has a big photo of yours truely on page 29. The Trizilla logo on my race suit in the picture is huge. I'll have to scan it in and post it once I get home.