PHLYTRI Weekend: Part 3

Saturday, June 26th.

oh cool, waking up at 4:45am is exactly what i want to do on a super important day.  UGH!  incredibly thankful everything about race day had already been planned out and walked through in my brain.  So although waking up before the sun is never really high on my list, i woke up and was in a really good mood and was calm, weird.  that's not a word commonly associated with me!

made myself some cream of wheat with honey.  who knows if this is really a good thing to eat before a race, but made sense to me, so i gave it a whirl.  had a giant glass of Gogi Berry Green Tea hydration stuff and a banana for good measure.

got dressed, again in a very calm and non-spastic manner, and finished packing up my bag/getting the gear into the car with some help from mz and my sis.  in typical mom & dad fashion, they sat out in the street until they saw me coming out to the car and shutting the garage...wanted to be on time for our 5:30 departure but wouldn't dare want to get in the way!! too funny, how could they possibly get in the way?! :)

watched the sun come up as we were pulling into the parking area by the Please Touch Museum...which mom called the Don't Touch Museum and dad called the Touch Me, Please Museum.  hahahha hysterically entertaining, especially to a hyper, over hydrated girl with really tight french braids!!

made the trek down Black Road and just let it set in that this was really happening.  i was surrounded by competitors and while some of them had some super snazzy gear, everyone was really friendly and i luckily didn't feel intimidated.  i had read everything, i knew what to expect, i couldn't wait to get through the line and have someone sharpie the heck out of me so i could go setup my transition area!

i'm not trying to be bragedocious, but i legit had a clue of what was going on and could not believe how many people were running around like idiots...clearly they didn't read ANYTHING!  i mean there are bike racks very clearly marked with the bib numbers that are allowed to 'park' there...so how is it that the announcer is reading off LISTS people where were mis-racked?!  a little reading/numbers quiz might be a good requirement going forward!!

took some time to talk with a few newbies setting up near me, not certain, but think i was the most excited out of the group.  a couple of girls looked like they were going to puke...i stayed away from them!

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