Coeur D' Alene, ID day 2

Corey went swimming in the lake, to see how bearable the water is. It was 57 degrees, but what does that mean for him on a practical level? I'll put a video in this post. I "interviewed" Corey for his experience....
( ...sorry for the George Costanza references. It's more of my geekery... I really need to get into that Final Cut video editing program!)

After the swim, we went to the tent to make signs for posting along the trail and for me to carry and wave around. I am totally happy with that, since I missed out on all the spectator things for last year's Tempe Ironman. We also stopped by the booth that allows you to post a giant electronic message to your athlete. It's pretty neat: the chip on Corey's ankle will cue the sign on his approach, and the message I wrote to him will come up for him to read!

Then we drove the bike path. HOLY COW! At first, I thought, "oh, this doesn't look TOO bad." But then, we went out into the more country-ish part of the ride --lots of steep uphills (and downhills, thankfully). I got tired just LOOKING at the route. However, Corey has ridden Round Mountain Road several times, and that road is steeper and way longer than any of those hills, so I'm confident that he'll kick butt!

The rest of the day was just... relaxed. We stopped in at Sportsman's Warehouse. Never been there before. Had a great time talking with two of the sales guys. They were totally helpful and enthusiastic about shooting sports. I had Corey look at the FN 57... I think he wants one :o) If you'd like to check it out on Wikipedia, since FN does not have this gun on its site, the link is ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FN_Five-seveN It was nice to be the customer making inquiries, versus the employee asking for tidbits of info here and there between customers ;o)

We went to the athletes' dinner. Cool! Two guys both lost 86 pounds training for the event! They got prizes. And every Ironman event also includes a Ford Ironman Everyday Hero. Neat stuff. Very special.

And now we are winding down for the night. We are so excited to have a DVD player in our room, so that we don't have to set up the laptop to play our Simpsons and Seinfeld episodes ;o)