Ready.....set....

With two bellies full of pasta, we are just set to call it a night.
We left Seattle at noon and got to the Holiday in Everett in less than an hour. The place was crawlin with tri-geeks as this was the host hotel for the race.
The mandatory meeting was LONG and could not have been done soon enough. We got our race kits after the meeting and headed over to the only restaurant in sight.....Denny's!
We had not eaten yet today other than a latte so we were both hungry.

We then hopped in the rental and drove to the race site which was only about 20 min away. We unpacked the bikes from our road side parking space and did a short but good ride. We hen got to transition and claimed our spots on the racks and went on to drive the bike course. It seems to be a challenging enough course, but luckily nothing like some of the really tough ones we have seen this year. Its technical and hilly, but if ridden smart, it should be ok.

There has been some wind over the past day or so, so the swim maybe a long part of the day!

Once we got back to the hotel, we bumped into Jeff, Heather and Nathan, cyber friends of ours through runningmania.com and grabbed a enjoyable pre-race meal.

Off to neverland for a few hours before the 4am wake up call.

See y'all after the race!

Brian & Heather
PS: We got to see Sister Madona Buder at the race sign up....one unbelievable athlete...Google her!!!!