Ironman 70.3 Racine : Official Thread (Page 19)

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention this.  It turned out that a friend of a friend lives in Racine and kindly offered up his home for my family to stay at the weekend of the race.  He was going to be out of town, but said he would leave the front door unlocked for us to get into the house.  I thanked him profusely and cancelled my hotel room.  When I showed up on Satuday, there was a note stuck to the door:

"Door was found open.  We checked the house and nothing appeared to be disturbed.  We relocked all doors.  Any questions, please call 262-XXX-XXX.  Mt. Plesant Police Department.  Officer xxxxxxx.  Badge #xx"

I guess my friend's door blew open, a neighbor saw the open door and called the cops, and the police locked up and left through the garage.  The neighbor and the police did exactly what they should have, but holy crap!  I quelled the panic, called my friend who encouraged me to try the windows and get creative.  I managed to push open the swivel window over the kitchen sink just enough to reach the hand crank . . . a little breaking and entering later . . . we had a place to stay.  Nothing like starting a tri weekend with some felonious activity.

I had a great time in Racine. I just want to thank all the BT people that treated me so well. I have spoken more about the hospitality I received then the race. Special thanks to "trixie" and Pete and his family! My brother and I were touched by your hospitality.

I had a blast at dinner!

Overall I am proud that I finished doing the race.

those would be my bodygaurds

kimk - 2010-07-22 12:02 PM

JHagerman - 2010-07-19 10:26 PM I also hydrated like crazy for at least 5 days leading up to this race.  I drank a LOT on the bike (pre-mixed nutrition, Perform and water) and my quads were still a wreck - especially at those first hills after the turn around.  I had to walk up the one right before the first aid station... just as I looked up a guy with a camera says 'sorry'  yup -  that race photo is going to suck.  Shortly after that aid station I realized that I wasn't sweating anymore and hit every aid station walking.  I drank everything and dumped ice into my tri suit (tru).

On a quick side note - anyone know who any of these 3 are:



Rumor has it that one of them was featured in a BT documentary and is also on the Tri Donkai (sp?) team - I didn't know who they were when we were talking - about a broken wetsuit zipper.

Yep Tammy is the one with her head turned, (green cap)the one looking at the camera is Tracy V.