I am an IRONMAN!!

I did it!

I got home late last night and am exhausted, but I feel great and have never been prouder! I will write a detailed race report soon. Thanks to all of you who supported me on this long journey, and a big Whoop dee Whoop! goes out to my amazing "I Da Ho Crew" ... Liz, Theresa, Tomie, and Jen. You guys rock!

Here I go ....

Tomorrow I leave for Coeur d'Alene!! Coach Paul told us that we should be getting LOTS of sleep now, and usually I'm pretty good at that. This morning, though, I was up at 4:00 and couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to get up and get stuff done in the hopes that I can get to bed early (by 8:00pm) tonight since I have to be at the airport at 4:30am tomorrow.

Last night was our last swim practice. Here I am (blue shorts & sweatshirt) walking into the pool with teammates Raul, Laurie, and Dean.
To simulate race conditions, each of us had to swim through the "gauntlet".. .. apparently it's a TnT tradition. Some said ours was pretty tame, but it sure didn't feel that way to me. And Matt reminded us all that we could all do this for 6 hours! So there.

IronTEAM

I reached my fundraising minimum of $8500 a couple of weeks ago, and I am so grateful to all of you with have supported me through this long journey. Thank you!!

Stats for the season:
swim: 149,288 yards

bike: 2,146 miles

run: 573 miles

total time: 340 hours, 40 minutes

What the hell am I going to do with myself after this?!

I will post a race report here as soon as possible.

Hugs,

Trish

Taper

Here's the TEAM gathered for our last bike ride before we head off to Coeur d'Alene. Saturday we met at Castaic Lake for a swim, bike, run, and picnic :) The lake was nice, and we swam for about 45 minutes before we were kicked out. The bike ride was only 18 miles. I rode for one hour out, but it only took 30 minutes to get back. The downhill was nice, but there were some strong gusts of wind that scared me. It would really suck to have an accident 2 weeks before a race that I've been training 8 months for. And then the run ... 50 minutes. I was a bit sluggish all day, but Coach Paul says that's normal after the low key week we had. Today I only had to run for 1 hour! I got up at 8:30 after 10+ hours of sleep, had coffee and read the paper like a civilized person. I could get use to this!

Our bikes are being shipped and need to be turned in by Friday. I can send a duffle bag with the bike so I'm trying to get all my stuff organized .... without freaking myself out. Since we won't have bikes, I'm not quite sure what we'll be doing for our team workout next weekend, but I do know that it involves food at teammate Gregorio's house afterwards :)

Weekly Stats:

swim: 5112 yards
bike: 36 miles
run: 18 miles
total time: 8 hours, 28 minutes