Flo’s own brand wheelsToday sees the start of the final prep for the races on Sat and Sunday.
Flo’s own brand wheels
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The challenge event is starting to feel a bit more real today as we opened registration and the vendors set up their wares. Flo and I counted the barriers at the swim and bike transition. Then when Garth was free we check out Bike course especially the turn on to and off the highway, where we will be marshalling on the day.
Garth dropped us into town at the Honey Bee coffee shop where we chilled out before walking back to the Hotel
Today was a busy day for Flo and I, we had an early call to say the water was finally ready for collection, so after breakfast Flo and I drove to Saint Stephen and collected the water and then delivered it back to Tressa mothers house.
We grabbed a coffee in Kingsbrae Gardens, wandered down town where we had a beer in the Red Herring, the back to Transition for back racking, and back to Saint Stephens for the Subway Sandwiches.
Once things settled down a bit Garth finally took time to check out the swim course, which look fab not a breath of wind and Peggy’s cove was flat as a mill pond.
Race Day has finally arrived and the weather is miserable cool, wet and at 03:00 dark. We got roped into distributing the timing chips no problem except I couldn,t read the numbers on the wrist bands but we managed ok as most of the competitors where too nervous to notice my short comings.
At 06:30 we zoomed of to Tim Hortons for the volunteer coffee, getting back in time to watch the swim start at 07:00 then on to the Highway to assume our marshalling posts.
I really enjoyed the bike leg of the race everyone was in good form in spite of the nasty weather, and no crashes even with our turn being very tight.
Once we finished our marshalling we spent the rest of the day watching some of the runners finish did some tiding up and went to the prize giving dinner which also turned into a good evening.
Helena, Garth, Tressa and Me
Walked around the Kingsbrae after the volunteer party, then down town and back to the hotel where meet up with G & H for a chat and some chips.