"Relax Man!"

How do you eat an elephant? Well one bite at a time of course!
So I broke the whole thing down into smaller pieces. More specifically about 4000 arm strokes, 30,000 complete revolutions of the pedals, and somewhere around 40,000 steps. Doesn't that sound a whole lot easier?

Anyway, believe it or not I think I'm ready to go. Still worrying about everything under the sun but probably needlessly. I think once we get away I should settle down a little bit. Besides I now have a new secret weapon in my arsenal. Only Roo and Colby know about it. I'll share it with everyone else after the race,...it's powerful stuff!

I completed my last semi-long bike ride today and got one final lesson about hydration. I rode 120 kms and when I tried to go for a jog afterwards I had no gas left. I just got too casual about it and underestimated the heat. I ended up with about 20 minutes jog/walk which is fine. Tomorrow I need to apend at least 1 hour 20 in the lake before we go because I haven't swam for a week, and I probably won't be able to swim again until we get to Penticton.

My posts from here on in will be short and sweet since I have to try to do it on my Blackberry. I hope it works out.

For anyone who cares the race website promises exclusive race day coverage but I don't know what that means. Here's the link if you want to check it on Aug 30th. You have to click the red tab that says "Race Essentials" which will then bring up the coverage link. Also for anyone who's interested just send an e-mail to prooyakkers@cosma.com with "race day" in the subject line and I will try to create an address group and maybe Roo can send updates with my Blackberry. And if you really care you can always call my cell (519 636 9051) and check up on us anytime.

I wish to dedicate day 332 to Paula Newby-Fraser, one of the worlds most successful triathletes who sent me a very imformative e-mail today regarding the race.

“The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."---Sydney J. Harris

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