Pictures

Woke up at 4:30am this morning and couldn't go back to bed. I layed there getting nervous about the race for about an hour before I gave in and turned the light on, opened my book and read for an hour before I could get up and head to breakfast. After a mini breakie we put our wetsuits on and hopped in the van to take us to the swim start. Once there I had to take my wetsuit off and have it Didymo dipped. Didymo is an algae that has started on the South island and they don't want it contaminating the North Island so we have to have our suits dipped in dishwashing detergent by Didymo Dave before the race. Once its dipped we get a key chain that we show at check-in on Thursday. The water was MUCh smoother today than it was yesterday and we still haven't seen rain yet, which only means that rain is just around the corner!

As I promised here are some pictures...

The town of Tirau and the corrugated lamb

Unpacking in Taupo, we had 3 buses full of people



Some pictures from Tuesdays ride, we rode the last 45km of the 2 loop course and I sucked Marc's wheel the entire time



Kraig, Marc and I (it was windy.. enough said)