The mass of Alaskans started trickling in for the Lavaman Triathlon, which is this Sunday. Several friends have arrived and today was the first day of our "Lavaman" training clinic with Peak, which is put on by our coach, Rebecca (in picture with her husband, Brendan). For our last two ironmans, we used a training plan I found online for free. Although it worked pretty well for us in the past, we decided to go with Peak because of all the information that was available and we wanted to maximize our training to do the best we possibly could. I'll try to post more later on what Peak is about, but it involves testing our blood at different levels on both our bikes and the treadmill to determine several things, such as lactate levels, VO2 Max and metabolic information (calories, fat, carbohydrates burned, etc). It's pretty cool and lots of information!!On Saturday, we got a rental car....which is pretty exciting for us considering we had 
commuter bikes and were borrowing Jim & Carrie's car for a limited time for grocery runs, etc. Sunday, we swam 1.2 miles from the Pier with Mark, who was really kind and waited for us several times along the way. Jason and I saw HUGE waves before our friend arrived and we weren't too excited to get in the water. The local group thought it was no big deal and jumped in so we went as well. The water was murky from the surf and was really choppy, so it was good practice for Lake CDA. After that, we loaded our bikes and went to the location of the Lavaman race and biked the course and ran afterwards. It was a really hot day (every day is hot but for some reason, they keep feeling hotter!?!?)! It wasn't a great pre-race workout because we both felt like we were dying (picture is after our workout).
commuter bikes and were borrowing Jim & Carrie's car for a limited time for grocery runs, etc. Sunday, we swam 1.2 miles from the Pier with Mark, who was really kind and waited for us several times along the way. Jason and I saw HUGE waves before our friend arrived and we weren't too excited to get in the water. The local group thought it was no big deal and jumped in so we went as well. The water was murky from the surf and was really choppy, so it was good practice for Lake CDA. After that, we loaded our bikes and went to the location of the Lavaman race and biked the course and ran afterwards. It was a really hot day (every day is hot but for some reason, they keep feeling hotter!?!?)! It wasn't a great pre-race workout because we both felt like we were dying (picture is after our workout).After working out, we hit the beach with some of those Alaskans....one of which especially stands out in this photo compared to J! :)
Elizabeth and her daughter, Chasity, arrived on Monday. So, we moved out of our Kona condo to share one with them in Waikoloa Beach Resort, which is the location of the Lavaman race. It was sad to leave our little condo....and knowing only 2 weeks are left, eeeks!
Today was a bit of swimming and biking....and most importantly MALASADAS!!!! They are some type of stuffed donut and they are delicious! We got a dozen stuffed with lemon, apricot, mango and bavarian cream, YUM!
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