2,800 and $702. Just a couple of not-so-random numbers.
The fist is the number of participants in this years Ironman Canada, the 29th annual, which will start very ceremoniously Sunday morning at 0700 with a canon blast. It is a mass start and if you are not familiar with the term 'swim carnage', this is the place for a textbook example. The swim start in Penticton makes the Kona start look like kids in an inflatable pool wearing water wings. Frothy.
The second number is the cost to enter next year's event, the 30th. To be fair it also includes the Canadian GST tax and Active.com's slimy registration fee, still we have broken the seven barrier, and that is a lot of cabbage.
So I am working these numbers today. I love that course, that event. I would really like to spend another week in the Okanagon heat the end of next August with almost 3,000 pals. Maybe I should get a job?
In an hour (according to the Timex count-down watch) we will descend on the Bainbridge Athletic Club to transform our existing cycling studio (the infamous House of Mirth) into a CompuTrainer Multi-Rider facility. Yes, we will still use (abuse) the LeMond Revmasters for spin class, but having access to four CTs, a big screen and several motivated cyclists spells F-U-N in my blog. We'll start with individual time trailing, ftp testing and a two person racing league. That will get us up and spinning.
Who knows, with enough concentrated indoor cycling by loyal customers and yours truly, I might make enough to enter next years Ironman Canada - and show up ready to ride!
Nothing random about that!
Pic is the 1997 swim start. Here is a video I welded together in '07 for the IMC RCV release. Cheers.
4 comments:
I'm super excited to see the new and improved cycle room. It's going to be excellent. A little sad that there is no class tomorrow though :( !!!
It is going to seriously ROCK, spent 8 hours on the set up today and it looks great. Can't wait to unveil. The Sat cancellation was news to me as well, disappointed indeed. BUT, we'll kick it Sunday, same time, same place?
FANTASTIC! Jacked to see it. Yeah, same time on Sunday. Is Bob or any one else running w/ us?
I'll put the word out. Steph is still nursing a sore hip, Kari recovering from a stress fracture and Bob is busy with real life stuff. We're the last of the Mochicans.
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