Friday in Kona

Tomorrow is the big day in Kona!! Cheryl and I are resting up for a grueling day of spectating. It's really hot here - high 80's and humid

This morning we swam on the Ironman course. There are a lot of EXTREMELY fit people here. I'm not sure I can even adequately describe how EXTREMELY fit these people are. We feel like fatties and posers next to them. The athletes have these neat bracelets that I SWEAR I would buy at Walgreens if they'd sell them. People here seem to look for bracelets (well, I do anyway) and when you don't have one, it makes you want to enter an Ironman immediately and ignore your family and career for a year so you can train and qualify to come here and get one. (haha just kidding Bill!!)

As Brian Guillian and Nancy Larson reported last year when they actually RACED here, there's a neat coffee bar out on the swim course. We swam out there and took it in. RTB's next venture should probably be a floating coffee bar in Lake Washington. I think we'd make a killing...

We talked to some nice people in the village today. Said thank you to ou

r sponsors at PowerBar and Velopress. Looked at some pretty incredible bikes (every bike here looks like a rocket ship)

Our hotel has some pretty hot bikes that you can check out FOR FREE!!! The grocery store is about 4 miles away and on these babies it took us a half hour to get there. Cheryl told me that some EXTREMELY fit bracelet-wearing guy riding a scooter (oh please, a scooter) laughed at us. I'm sure it was more like a chuckle of admiration.

On our bike ride, we saw Andy Potts getting into an SUV....he drove past us as I stuck out my phone for a picture. you can clearly see his hand in the SUV window. He was waving at Cheryl saying how cool her bike was.....

Moments later, a 70+ gentleman had the audacity to pass us on Ali'i drive on his way to drop off his bike. We caught up to him and snapped his photo. His name is Joe and he's from Belgium. GO JOE!!!

At the pool today we overheard a dad talking about his daughter who is racing tomorrow. She qualified somewhere with a 11:15 and hopes to go 10:00 tomorrow. He looked good...his wife looked good...dang it why does everyone in this town need to look so good??

Matt is holed up somewhere in town tonight with Suzy. Talked to her awhile ago and it sounds like he's getting himself ready for race day. We're so proud of him and his work to get here. Did he have to qualify? no.... But he will be racing in some really tough conditions tomorrow and the RTB support crew will be twittering and supporting all day. GO MATT.