St. A's Pre Race

Usual pre race day today. Somehow I always think I'm going to have loads of time to laze about but there's always things to do. Rode the bike for 45min, somehow my spare tubular fell out during the ride but during the cab ride back to the hotel I saw it on the side of the road, grabbed it and we were back on our way. Swam the entire swim course with Jocelyn (or at least to the first buoy with Jocelyn). Felt good on the swim and I immediately felt much faster and stronger than previous open water swims - I'm ready for a huge swim improvement tomorrow. Water felt great, warm even without a wetsuit. The swim was like an aquarium, I was checking out stingrays and starfish during some stretches.
Ate dinner at one of Florida's many fine Italian restaurants with Steve Pye and his Pratical Coaching group and now I'm ready to race.
The plan tomorrow is to swim and bike very hard, I may not have a stellar run off that but I know I can run well off anything. The dynamics of the race will be alot different from last year for me since I've been swimming so much more this year. I'll actually have guys around me getting out of the water and on the bike so I'm hoping that will help me take some minutes off my time.