Saturday, October 25, 2008

the day before...





Right now I am laying in a hotel room at the Maui Prince, wearing recovery tights, and watching college football waiting for the World Series to get underway. Not exactly what most think of doing when traveling to a tropical island, but it's what I need to be doing.

Yesterday was a long day of travel and fortunately very uneventful. Everything arrived in one piece and there were no delays. When I landed in Honolulu I had a voicemail from my sister saying she was over the day to day grind and just bought a ticket to maui and booked a room at the host hotel, the famous Maui Prince. So that's why I am here and not crashing on a sofa bed in a condo with some of my friends. I'm stoked she made the crazy decision to head over... as always.

Today has been super mellow. I woke up, had some rad coffee, a good breakkie, and then headed out the door for the race site to in my race prep workouts and check-in. Again, everything went very smooth and I was even able to con my way into a 5 hour early check in at the hotel... stoked!

where things will get started tomorrow at 9am.


that's it... I can't wait to race tomorrow. Here's another quote from RAD that pretty much somes up tomorrow.

Sergeant Smith: "Cru, remember the lumber yard...go balls out."


Bring on (my) Helltrack!!!

16 comments:

Jim said...

Get some good, solid sleep tonight. Were already excited and will be watching the streaming video in hopes of catching a glimpse of you on your way to the top. Good Luck.

Luke said...

dude your sister rocks!! good luck and charge hard!

runninggunner said...

Sounds like all systems are go. Have a good race. Enjoy Maui. Love that place.

Cliff said...

Jameson,

Stya mellow..race your heart out there :)...we will be cheering for you...

Zippy said...

Sounds like all systems are go. Sweet.

ramon said...

JW,
Rock n Roll partner. Give'em hell and see them at the finish line with your arms raised in victory!"Get After It"

ll said...

DUDE have a great day out there! Make all thehard work pay off! You've so totally deserved to achieve great things!

Jim said...

Today is THE DAY !!!!

Zippy said...

2ND AMATEUR! F*cking SICK!!!

runninggunner said...

Great Race James! 2nd amateur by seconds. Awesome!

Ryan D said...

bro, 6 minutes faster than last year? Seriously? You absolutely KILLED IT out there today!! Congratulations man, you gotta be on top of the world...

Dan said...

Can't wait for your post-race post, so I'm gonna say it here...

You absolutely slaughtered it today!

Congrats on reaching so high and achieving!

Sarah said...

DUDE!!!!!!!! I JUST LOOKED AT THE RESULTS!!! CONGRATULATIONS, MAN!! YOU TOTALLY KILLED IT, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Super high five, James, WAY TO BE!!!

Big big congrats. :D

Bryancd said...

You just won your Ag and are the second amatuer...amazing!

SixTwoThree said...

Looks like you kicked it!!!!! I didn't see you cross the line. But the live feed said you were second across for amateurs. I sure hope so!!! Coooooooool!!!

Anonymous said...

Major congrats! Got to see the first guys crossing the line. Very cool.