It's the day before the race and when you are as pumped up as I am for an event, it's imperative to keep yourself distracted and avoid getting too excited! Still on Ontario time, I was awake at 3:30am and it was starting to get light outside! Not a good start! I had more than 4 hours to fill before our guided tour of Anchorage.
It was a cloudy morning so the scenic outlooks on the tour didn't pan out for us:
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| From the top of the popular Flattop Hill, Donavan is pointing directly at Anchorage. Too bad we are stuck in the clouds! |
Being the day before the marathon, we decided it wouldn't be a grea idea to go on the most popular and steepest vertical hike available in Anchorage. So we just went up the first few steps and called it a good photo opp!
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| This hiking trail ascends something like 1,280ft in about 2.4km. We went up 10 steps! |
We caught a ride back to town on the 'Pack Moose Express'. For some reason we were getting a lot of stares. The Moose dropped us off in Bear Square where we rubbed the bear's belly!
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"Legend has it that when you rub the bear's
tummy it will bring you good luck" |
This evening we attended the Inspiration dinner where 103 Team In Training participants, their families, some honourees and all the coaches etc got together to carb-load and pump up our energy levels!
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6 of the top 10 fundraisers were from Canada. 5 are showing here. Our friend Kristen raised over $6,000 but wasn't
on the list. :-( |
Donavan and I have already made a lot of new friends on our trip. Here is a picture of with part of Team Canada!
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| Donavan; Rita from Montreal; Me; Stef and Kristen from Halifax. |
Gotta get some sleep now! Race is tomorrow at 8am Alaska time (Noon Eastern time)
-Craig
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