Florida

After arriving in FL on Thursday we put the bikes together, unpacked and then grabbed our running stuff and headed out for a few miles running. It was good to be out since I hadn't ran in a week. We only went three miles but it was good to get use to the heat for a little bit.

We went for dinner after the run which took longer than the triathlon, so our early morning swim plans got changed to mid-day which was fine by me so we could swim in the sun.

Friday morning we got up and went down to the bike course to see how it was going to be. It was a nice course but with traffic the first 7 miles it was a pain because of all the lights, but what are you going to do? The point was just to cruise the course but Jason was feeling good and putting the hammer down for some stretches while the Zipp 808's made love to the road. So it was a pretty fast ride for something that was going to be just cruising. I think we averaged 20.4 or something like that. I've never rode 25 miles that were so flat. I knew after that ride I was going to get my ass handed to me in the bike leg of the race but I had the confidence to know I could probably average 22.
Later we headed to the pool for a swim of 3000 yards which is all anyone ever really needs to do for triathlon.
I know we ended up spending way too much time walking around at the triathlon expo and not resting our legs but it was a lot of fun.

Saturday was a rest day and we went for a bike ride of about 35 minutes with some quick spinning. I definitely felt a little tightness from Friday's ride and I was having front deraillure issues again. Confidence in bike going down.

Once again, we spent way too much time on our feet that day and probably over eating on foods that weren't going to keep us energized and hydrated. I made it a point to drink tons of water Friday and Saturday because of the heat knowing I needed to be well hydrated on Sunday.