Holy Expensive!

Ironman is getting so expensive.  I dropped $702 to race next year, but what the hell - it's only money and it is what I do afterall!

I forgot to mention in my earlier entry that there were over 2,800 athletes starting the race yesterday, and there was quite a bit of carnage on the road with all the cyclists.  How they can have a drafting rule with that many bikes on the road is beyond my comprehension.  If you are in a cyclist's draft zone you have 20 seconds to pass, and with that many bikes on the road, it's pretty difficult to stay five metres behind the bike ahead of you, and then as soon as you pass that bike there's another bike to pass.  It's a good thing the drafting marshalls aren't always around, but if they catch someone drafting, it's a four minute penalty in the sin bin.  With next year being the 30th anniversary of Ironman Canada, there will likely be more athletes than this year.  They almost didn't have enough room for all the bikes in transition this year.  I think it's about time they put a cap on the number of athletes.  It's becoming dangerous.

It was just announced recently that there is a new Ironman in Canada to add to the list of Ironmans around the world - in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.  Now us triathletes will have two Canadian venues to choose from and it's about time. Well, 2012 is already spoken for, 2013 is Italy, so Mont-Tremblant will have to wait until 2014!

Today has been a pretty boring day.  We went to Tickleberry's for ice cream.  I had a single waffle cone, which is actually three scoops of ice cream.  I love ice cream, but by the end of the third scoop, I wasn't enjoying it too much.

We leave homebound early tomorrow morning, but not before we stop by and pick up our pre-ordered fruit - peaches, grapes, plums, and blueberries.

It has been a whirlwind trip, but I had a lot of fun volunteering and connecting with some of my friends that I don't see much at home.