Issues for this week

I just want to hit some key points for the week:

You should all be having a pretty easy week in prep for the big race......relax and enjoy!

The plan for race day is to depart from my house at 0530 so that means that you should get here about 0515 so we can cross level the bikes and load the cars. We should be in Clayton NLT 0630 and have plenty of time for packet pick up and set up. When you get there you will immediately find out your swim time so you can text family members and give them a timeframe for your race and their arrival. This is very exciting.

I know that you will all be very successful on race day and so we will be in need of some party celebration time!! The party plan is for 6:00pm at Franky's house. She has requested that you bring an appetizer or dessert and the beer/drink of your choice. Of course extra beverages of all kinds we be great since there will be kids at the event as well and so they will not be drinking beer. Please let me via email whether you will be bringing a dessert or an app so we do not have too much of either one!

I also know that we talked about the upcoming races. I think the agreed upon tentative plan is that we would do 3 Pigs on 6/19 in Smithfield and the final race for the season would be the Outer Banks Sprint or Olympic distance on 9/18. In addition many people thought that the Kure Beach Double Sprint Tri would be a lot of fun and a good precursor for the OBX Tri. That race is on 6/27.

With the races as planned that leaves July/August race free which is not all bad but if you want to get a race in for training purposes then you could look at Swim for Smiles on 7/25 in Chapel Hill....this is a pool swim or you could look at the Triangle Tri at Harris lake on 7/10 or 7/11...this is a lake swim so it is a bit of an adventure for some. I think I will be doing Harris Lake even though I had a terrible race there last year....triathlete errors all around on my part :-)

We need to sign up for the races sooner than later as the price goes up the closer you get to the race!!!