Last night's dinner was great. We had an amazing view of the sunset and the swim start. The food was good too and we had a nice breeze from the ocean. Army were the only nerds that wore their polos and visors. :^/ Go figure! Dinner was good too.
Before dinner, I even got out on the bike course in our car. We drove through the lava fields which was quite an interesting experience. There were lots of white rocks formed into words. I must have overlooked that in my research about the event. There was even a white rock formation of the UT (University of Texas) Longhorns symbol. I thought that was pretty clever. I almost got the urge to stop and create one myself! Of course, I didn't have any white rocks with me....
Also, a few additional details about the before dinner time. We had hopes of hitting up the Ironman village to get some messages put into the archway for the run. It was really cool to pass through the Ford Ironman station at Ironman Florida last year and see the inspirational messages posted by my AWESOME coach Stacey McMickens. However, we arrived at 4:15pm PST and the village closed at 4pm PST, so we just missed that. Instead we opted to walk around the shops downtown. I ran across a really interesting gift idea and I'll try to explain it here. Outside this shop was a sign that said, "Show me your nuts and send someone a coconut." Please notice (my fellow grammar nerds) that the possessive form of "your" is used here implying insanity versus the contraction "you're" implying something inappropriate. ;) Well, I had this crazy idea to send one to Justin who is at Ranger school. How funny would that be? I'll post a picture of this coconut later. And they do in fact have special postage stamps for the coconuts. All in all, the price for one of these is $17 including shipping!
Onto other topics though...namely the subject of this blog, "tattoos." For all you athletes aspiring to come to Kona here's some intel on these "tattoos." And I am not talking about the famous "m dot" trademark tattoo either. I'm talking about tattoos for different products. When you visit a booth or see a vendor on the street you politely ask for a temporary tattoo. Later in the day, you visit their booth wearing the tattoo and they will give you free gear! I wasn't too keen on doing this because it involves some foottraffic and unnecessary fatigue. But today, I lucked out and got 2 Nathan products. One was a 2 flask fuel belt, and then another handheld flask. Score! Free gear is always cool. And free gear at Kona is even better! For all you feminine types my fuel belt is PINK too! :)
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