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Tomorrow We Race! Watch Out For 3133

Tomorrow morning at 8:46am CDT, I will be getting in the water and starting something I honestly thought I would never do. As a kid I used to watch the CBC on Saturdays as they showed Ironmans. I always thought it would be so cool to ride/run through a water station, grab a cup of water and dump in on my head. Tomorrow with number 3133 on my chest, I will actually do it! What a blast it will be. The last six weeks have been a great journey and, I'm asking the Lord to help me make this just the start of a new pattern of being more healthy.

My goal tomorrow is to finish in under 2 hours. So that would be about a 20min swim, 60min bike ride, 35min run, and 5min in the transition area. To see me finish you'd have to get to the Start/Finish by about 10:30 or so. There are also great places to watch the race all along the course. I'd recommend somewhere along the St.Paul side of the bike portion of the course. It's gorgeous all along the Mississippi River there.

This picture is a hint to the sweet accessory I will be sporting as I run tomorrow so you really can't afford to miss that. And I just might have my shirt off so you really should miss that. I guess you'll just need to weigh the pros and cons of it all.

The document below has all the details you need if you want to come down.

One more more thing. You can track me as I race by getting periodic text messages as I progress along the course. You'll be able to know exactly where I am and make sure I haven't passed out in a ditch somewhere. My bib number will be 3133 and I can be tracked here: http://www.peaktiming.com/sms/mplstri2011/