Small World in Lake Placid, Continued!

So yesterday I posted with the title, Small World in Lake Placid and I went on about the training camp and forgot to tell you about meeting Armen. As part of the Fireman Ironman Camp, we all met at the High Peaks Cycle Shop in Lake Placid at 7am on Sat morning. Tom Delaney the owner of the shop gave us a talk on emergency bike repairs and how to deal with different parts of the bike course, especially how to ride down the big decent which terrifies some people!

As we got up to leave for our ride, I notice a really familiar face in the crowd, I couldn’t place him for a minute, but then it hit me, this guy swims at the Stouffville pool! We introduced ourselves and had a good laugh over it. And even more of a coincidence, Armen is raising money for MS, in honour of his uncle who had MS and passed away in 2008. Unbelievable, two guys doing the same Ironman, raising money for the same cause, swimming at the same pool and we meet up in a bike shop 500km away!

Of course we also saw Cathy and Christiane in Lake Placid and out on the bike course. We all had dinner together on Friday night and made a trip to the Ben & Jerry’s, a very important training nutrition regime. If I can just get either Paul or Cathy to enter the race next year, we could make it an annual training weekend and start our own Lake Placid camp to prepare for the race.