IMLP - Friday (Trying to Stay Off My Feet)

T minus 2 days until Ironman Lake Placid.  I woke up today feeling good (Shaun didn't feel quite as good as I did but then again I didn't have 4 margaritas on Thursday night).  We headed up to Mirror Lake for my last workouts before the race.  First up was an easy 15 minute swim. I decided to wear the wetsuit just to see how it felt.  Not good.  I was really warm in the wetsuit and the swim generally felt crappy.  If the race is wetsuit legal I'm going to have a hard time deciding whether or not to wear.  I figure air temperature at race start may play a role in that decision.  Next a 60 minute ZR bike.  I did 4 easy out and backs on Mirror Lake Drive.  Finally a 10 minute ZR T run.  The run felt great.  My ZR pace was about a minute per mile faster than my normal ZR pace, so I'm guessing that's a good sign. 

Shaun swam for about 30 minutes while I was swimming and biking and then headed into town for a Starbucks run.  While he was waiting for me to finish he got to spend some quality time with Mary.  I find it amusing that the people NOT racing Lake Placid look so much happier than the people who are racing Lake Placid.  I think Shaun needs to do an Ironman that I'm not racing so I can have some spectator fun.

I finished up my workouts around 9 a.m. and we headed back to the hotel. The goal was to stay off my feet as much possible but that didn't exactly work out. First there was a trip to see Pat to have my bike "fixed."  I was having problems shifting from my small chain ring into my big chain ring.  Ended up the problem was with me and not my bike.  I was trying to change gears under a a heavy watts load and needed to learn to use an easy spin when I was shifting into the big ring.  Pat essentially taught me to re-ride my bike, nice thing to learn 2 days before a race.  Next trip was for a massage with Courtney just to loosen my legs and then a pedicure with Mary.  Mary rode her bike to the pedicure place and had a water bottle in one cup holder and a cup of coffee in the other.  Nice. 

Once I for back from my pedicure, Shaun and I drove to Tail of the Pup in Saranac Lake for dinner. Shaun had BBQed chicken and ribs and I got the lobster and clam dinner.  Nom nom nom Lobster.  The place a little dive-ish but the food was really good and the the barbecue sauce was fantastic.  I was eating it by the spoonful.  I would love to be able to go back again, but tomorrow night it eating strictly by the QT2 book. 

We got back to the hotel around 7 p.m. and tried to watch Hulu, but the hotel seriously lacks band with. After about 20 minutes of stop and go buffering, I pulled out a book and passed about by 8:30 p.m.