Day Three

The headline could have read: Best Indoor Training Video. You prepping for Kona, Tahoe, Boulder or something a bit shorter, closer or more 'reasonable'? CycleVidz.com could be an element. But there is no headline. We cut right to the chase.

Blindsided, he instinctively defaulted to verbal cliche, but amazingly had enough time to process the subliminal flash of neon sub-text that suggested (to him alone?) that all these are connected, elements of one. The Big Island is connected by water to the humble home of Chilly Hilly. The only difference between an Ironman and an indoor tri or du, was one of distance, as the intensity can remain a constant. And that sometimes geography has little to do with a family's connectivity.

"You from the Island?"