Saturday pre-race

Practice swim this morning, plus another massage from the ART folk. They don't like to call it massage (active stretching or something), but I don't care; it feels awesome. According to Amy and Mark at ART, my neck muscles have started compressing my spine around C5 and C6 which could explain the pain initiated by the midget shower. This probably is connected to high school football when I experienced some "stingers" with sensations similar to what happened in the midget shower. Anyway, their recommendation was for a slightly more elevated aero position and lots and lots of massage. I'll do them one better: after this whole ordeal I'll only ride my road bike and get lots of massage.

Tonight for dinner we had the classic pre-race pasta meal, along with tasty Idaho potatoes, from Idaho! It was only 99 cents for a big bag that we won't be able to finish. Time to stretch, and get to bed by 8.