Leaving for Seattle

I'm leaving for Seattle tomorrow (Tuesday) morning for the race. Hard to believe it is this coming Sunday! I'm definitely ready for it. My training has been solid, and everything is coming together just at the right time. I feel good. I'll try to add a few more updates to the blog during the week, and then get my race results posted up here as soon as I can, so keep watching!

Thank you to everyone for your phone calls, emails, letters, facebook posts, and all other forms of kind wishes today. Here's a few pictures of my birthday/leaving-for-the-race dinner this evening with the Missoula crew:

The girls are responsible for the flower arrangement "frame". I guess that's one of the dangers of handing your camera over to someone else and asking them to take pictures at will.