- So secret swimming hole is just magical.
(soft music)
Somebody locked me out.
Good morning trainiacs.
It is day one now in Campeche, got to sleep last night
at about 2am I think and slept until the crack of 7:00
and then we went to Walmart and got extremely health
conscious food, have you ever tried finding gluten free
veganish food in another language?
With nobody around that speaks English?
Not easy, not very easy at all, Nicole is taking
a little bit of a siesta right now,
I'm extremely hangry so I'm topping
up on my levels of, what is this, an empanada?
Soft taco, banana, peanut butter.
Motorcycles, Americano, extremely balling garden,
and then I'll spend a little bit of time putting
together the vlog from our travels yesterday,
and then we put the bikes together, little bit of a rest,
and then go out and do, I think, I think Nicole,
she's sleeping right now, I think a little bit of a bike
around, do that and I'll give you a tour of the place
when she wakes up.
(upbeat electronic music)
Somebody locked me out.
Nicole. - Yeah?
- You locked me out. - Oh I locked you out?
- You locked me out.
(Nicole laughs)
- You can stay there.
- You stay there, best burn ever.
- Yeah I did, I remember locking (mumbles).
- Thank you. - Careful what you wish for.
- Just a couple finishing touches, tighten everything up,
I gotta play around a little bit with the rear wheel,
because the 25 mil tire that I've got on there doesn't
want to agree with the P3 frame, so, I gotta move it back
a little bit, get myself some breathing room.
I'll do that, and I'll give you a little tour now that
we're all up and at 'em.
Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna give you a tour
of Casa de Campeche Iron Man 70.3, ready?
- Ready. - Ready.
It has an immensely cute little peekaboo window.
Floors that look dirty but are actually quite delightful
and charming. - Yes actually, they're
a lot better than I thought, at first, they weren't up
to my standards. (laughs)
- A nook dining table.
Taren's balling bedroom.
A very spacious bathroom.
Complete kitchen for all of our fix'uns.
Taren's blog editing workspace, table to hold Taren's
coffee cup, delightful garden.
Apparently a plunge tub.
And our very own washer and dryer.
(upbeat music)
Nicole and I just checked into the race, and two fun things
happened, number one, we ran into Trevor and Heather Ortel,
fellow Canadians, and number two, we found this place, huh?
How's this for a fine, this is a perfect 50 meter pool
just snuck up on us. - Yeah, no big deal.
- So secret swimming hole is just magical, love this.
(water sloshes)
You wanna smile for the camera?
We are the cutest, we are the cutest.
- Non friends. - Cutest unfriends.
- Unfriend. - Unfriend.
Barely tolerate each other.
- Actually so far we've traveled pretty well
together. - We've done okay.
Scale of 1 to 10, how awesome a find
was that? - That was like 10 out of 10.
That was sweet. - Trick question, 12.
Get with the program, alright, how do we get back?
- That way. - That way.
- Squinch in here. - Wow that's so pretty.
Look at the way the tree is, it almost looks like a big
part of my hair, like that. - That's a good look.
Go with that.
So what did we learn today about the course?
- Well we don't get to swim in the water at all
before we race. - We do not get to swim
in the water at all.
- So the last time that I've done an open water swim
was Kona. - That would have been Deluth.
- Yeah it's been a while. - Yeah, August 28th.
- Now I'm thinking I might get a little bit of a warmup,
I'm not sure you'll get any.
- I'm just gonna flex really hard on shore.
- I'm glad I don't have to see that.
- You might, everyone's gonna look, what about the bike?
We biked for an hour and made it
four kilometers. - It's true, we just
went back and forth three times.
- Yeah. - Four times I guess, to make
it back, yeah, you know what the good news was is that
I'm happy on my wheels, I'm gonna race on my (mumbles)
it was pretty windy today and I still thought that I could
control it, so,
that's a positive. - Now, Nicole went out on her
deep section wheels, what are they, like 90 mils?
80? - Yeah it's 60 front 90 back.
Head to head, - Okay.
- Head six and head nine. - Explain to folks why you'll
have shallower on the front and deep
on the back. - Oh, because I get blown
around a lot, some people tell me that I'm not very strong.
The deeper it is, the more you get blown around
in a crossway. - Right, on the front, you get
blown around more. - More, yeah.
- Because you're sitting on your
back wheel. - Back wheel, yeah, the weight
is in the back, yeah.
- What's the rule at Kona?
- I raced on that in Kona.
- Like how deep can you go in Kona?
- I don't know the rule but I know you can't have a disc,
I think they're not allowed here either, I'm sure we'll
find that out in the meeting tomorrow, I mean I don't
have a disc, so. - Not an option for us.
- No.
Somebody would like to donate (mumbles).
Not donate, sponsor me a disc.
Anyone out there would like - A disc, really?
- To sponsor me with a disc wheel, like to take them
up on that. - Take that up?
- Yeah. - You'd do that?
- Yeah. - Funny story about wheels,
my P3 is like six season old, and wheels these days
are getting wider tires, so I've got 25 mil tires
on the Altos that I've been talking all about, and,
don't ruin this for me, I'm sounding good right now,
this is one take. - Why are we doing only
one take? - Because we're efficient.
So 25 mil tires, and the bike can't really handle that,
so I literally have toilet paper in my
front dropouts. - Yeah, that's really funny.
We gotta find, - That's shimming out the
wheel, I think, I think got an idea to fix that,
I think if we flip the springs that hold the skewer together
James figures that it'll get you a little bit the space.
James is bike guy,
my bike guy. - Or you could take the tires
off of my other set of wheels I have.
- James also says you do 23 on the front?
- Yeah, that's why I was, - Because it's more aero on
the front but where you're sitting and the tire is more
compressed on the rear, it's better to have a wider tire
because your rolling resistance is less, so be more aero
on the front but you're giving up rolling
resistance, so it kind of, - So but it's the front that's
giving you problems anyways. - It's the front.
- So you can take that tire. - I was,
- Actually it's not even my tire, it's Jared's, I think,
- Jared.
- Maybe it's Pat's actually, the wheels are Pat's, I thought
(mumbles)
- Let's just use everyone
else's stuff. - We should say thanks
to everyone. - Yeah.
- Thanks for getting us here. - Yeah, what else did we learn
anything else? - I put my bike back together
successfully on my own for the first time ever.
- Hilarious story about that.
- I had to, - Nicole was talking about how
she left her skewers at home, - Oh my gosh, okay, I looked,
- I don't have any skewers, - for like an hour,
- I have no skewers, I can't believe I forgot my skewers,
they were holding her bike into
the bag, - into the bag,
- That's how it's designed. - I already had messaged
Jackson to say Jackson I think I left the skewers at your
shop, and like two seconds later I found them and I had
to email him again and say, - They're on her bike,
that's it, we gotta keep the shooting tight because
we gotta send this back to Winnipeg,
and the lovely Teddy. - Cheers again, cheers with
- Has to edit this tomorrow. - Our bottle of water.
- Cheers, see you trainiacs, tomorrow is the day before
the race, and I think tomorrow, at very least I, if Nicole's
up to it, - We did the pool today.
- Gonna check in, I told them about that.
We're gonna check in and do just one sit down,
thoughts going through at least my head.
If you wanna have some quiet time and not do that it's okay.
I'll just tell you what thoughts are day before a race.
Mostly fear.
- Yeah, that's all I feel right now.
- Alright. - Sheer fear.
- Okay, goodnight.