Month: October 2008

One day before Ironman Florida. It’s Halloween and all the triathletes are being silly, including our tour guide Ken: I don’t know where he got this mask of the grim[…]

As usual, I gotta hand in my bike and bags the day before the race. Here’s my relatively fully loaded bike, ready to rock and roll: First, a little surgery[…]

Today I took one last chance to fix my Powertap ZIPP Disc. I unscrewed the cap and carefully replaced the batteries. Then I brought my bike downstairs for a ride[…]

Tonite is the pasta party where we carb up with pasta of all sorts. We wear an ID bracelet which gets us into the dinner (but also identifies us if[…]

Oh by the way, I forgot to mention that Ken finished his 25th Kona race this last October. He raced a 9:44 on about 6 weeks of training. What a[…]

I just went out and bought some more dishwashing liquid. Amazingly, there are no 7-11s here but there is this Camper’s Inn which is basically a 7-11 for Panama City[…]

This morning our host Ken Glah showed us his culinary skills by cooking breakfast again: We all then went for a swim. Definitely warmer today even though I brought all[…]

At 1pm I went over to get my bike from TriBike Transport. It was a slow moving line: TriBike Transort was very impressive. It’s such a great operation to help[…]

Last night I went through my things and found I forgot even more stuff this time! The official scorecard is: Digital camera Contact lenses Fleece pullover What a pain! At[…]