Getting ready to head to Penticton

It is a busy week getting things done at work and getting packed to go away for a week. This past weekend i had one of my best results ever in a race coming third in the Sackville Sprint triathlon out of 90 people. I do feel pretty good in terms of my training and don't feel like there is anything else i could have done for this ironman. So, my performance however it goes will not suffer from lack of training. There may be other factors such as heat to contend with. I ran yesterday for a half hour and felt great and today I am going to cycle for an hour. Tomorrow is a short run of 30mins and that's about it.

My goal with every ironman is to try to get as much out of the weekend as possible interms of enjoying the experience- which includes travel, meeting new people, shopping and generally having fun. I want to enjoy the race as much as possible and do as well as I can. I will be happy if I get through the race safely and complete it without any major problems. That is my primary goal; my secondary goal is always to improve my times. Last year, my time was 11:39 with what I thought was a slow bike ride but a good swim and a very good run. I would like to improve the bike time by 10 minutes or so and keep the other times or improve on them slightly. My marathon time last year was slightly over 4 hours so I am sort of shooting for under 4 hours. We will see.