The morning started kind of dull. It was still dark at 6 am. A sign that the days are getting shorter. The rain gave me another reason to stay in bed. However, lt was better to get up and go. I’ve already said I was going. Those kind of dull morning often turn into great days. And it did. As soon I we got to Cornwall, the sky was just falling down. Setting up was a mess. I was mentally ready for a wet race. There were several K2J Fitness runners at the race. A couple first timers. Gotta love a new challenge. 5 of us competed in the Duathlon, which started at 8:30. It was still raining lightly but the clouds were moving fast. The duathlon was 2.5k run, 20k bike, and 5k run. It started fast
The short version…it rained and rained and then it rained some more! Oh and it was windy too! I can’t say enough great things about all those volunteers and spectators out there in the rain all day. WOW…thank you! The long version Looking back I am not sure why but for some odd reason I got the idea I wanted to do one more full Ironman. I picked IMMT because I love the venue and I think they do a great job with the half. We stayed at Auberge Mountain View between Saint-Jovite and the village. It’s our default spot if we are not in a condo. Supper friendly and they do the little things like leaving us a snack for race morning because they know we will miss breakfast. It’s always full of athle
StartFragment Peak to Brew is a 238 mile (383km), 48 stage relay which starts at the top of Mount Whiteface just outside Lake Placid and ends at the Saranac Brewery in Utica New York. Teams can enter with 12 runners and two vans which leap frog each other or they can enter as an ultra team with 6 runners. The finish line is the Boliermaker finish line and like Boilermaker there is free beer and a party at the end. All we had to do was run 238 miles and the beer would be free! We had no trouble finding a team of K2J Fitness runners willing to run for beer! The newly formed K2J Canadians left Ottawa on Thursday with 12 runners, 2 drivers and 2 clean vans. Check in was at the Whiteface Ski Cen
