6 days out

We've now been here for 1.5 days.. Today was a good day. Went swimming this morning, the water makes up for the overly boring bike course.. It was the clearest water i've seen, very active bottom, kind of like snorkeling, except your swimming. Water temperature was about perfect, not too cold, and not too hot.. Was a bit busy, but not too bad..


I went for an hour run after swimming, all i can say is it was hot and humid. I was completely wet after about 10 minutes, the run will be interesting for me.. I understand why this race is so hard, certainly not the terrain, its the heat. I have noticed the men just are not friendly, but the women are.. Its hard to even get a smile out of any of the droves of men running the course, its crazy. Getting busy.. One thing thats really cool is a gatorade stop thats been stocked everyday with cold gatorade for people training, its right outside our condo. Here's lucas taking advantage of it:

Our place has a sea water pool right be the ocean, its sweet, lucas loved it..

Lastly, we had dinner with my parents at a place called hugos, food was ok, atmosphere was perfect, right on the ocean..

Plan to swim tomorrow, then drive up and ride the 20 miles before Hawi, then back. Did i mention it was hot??