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last masters before go time

I got my butt up the last 2 mornings for early morning workouts! yesterday to run 5 with Caryn, Estella and Lana...and today for my last masters. I swam with Katie today and we had quite the crash when we forgot if we were circle swimming or not. oops! both were fine though. lol. she was encouraging about my race and told me to buy everything! hee hee. i plan to!! :)
it was about 2300. Craig wished me good luck, which was cool and I saw Brad.
Just one more week..9 days to be exact! can't believe how close we are getting.
we had our get together meeting with Lisa Martone, Kris Story, Lana and caryn last night to talk about special needs bags and just ironman in general. It was really helpful. Plus really nice to see them all and have a couple of drinks.
I have my moments of nerves, but so far so good. mostly i'm just stressed about leaving while Mom is so sick and not eating anything...which makes me feel so guilty and sad. I know she will be ok though. we will have "eyes on her" the whole time and Lee will be able to go visit.
Its just nerve wracking being gone so long away from mama.
I am excited for the vacation though. Not nervous yet about the race, more just getting everything together and making sure i dont forget something.
This weekend is a 50 mile bike in the cold..last one!! and an 8 mile run, which realyl seems like nothing anymore :)
still trying to decide if i want to wear my old hokas or my new hokas . I wore the new ones on the 5 miles but my foot fell asleep. though that could be from the new inserts??
Its all a guessing game and I guess i will just do what i practiced and it will all work out!
Don't Stop Believin!!!


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