We had many friends doing Ironman Wisconsin this year so we drove to Madison to spend the day with them and play; who needs a reason to go to Madison anyway. We found Lardog walking to swim at Lake Manona while we were looking for place to park and hooked up with him and Sterling and the Timinator for a swim. The water was really smooth and warm, great morning for a swim. We followed it with a run which we ended on the capital square and decided to walk through the capital. Since we were hot we laid down on the cool stone floor in the rotunta to take the picture below. There was a group of school children there and it was funny that they all started following are lead and a few moments later we had a whole group of them lying on their backs on the floor taking pictures – not sure their teachers were amused – Ha!
Our friend Marni got held up in Milwaukee with her dog throwing up so we went down to the lake while she took a practice swim. She has done every IM Wisconsin so she just needed to check out her wetsuit to make sure it felt right for the race.
We stuck around for a great meal with the group at Papinnos on the square. We did the dinner family style with lots of great dishes.
It was great fun catching up with everyone we were sorry to have to drive back to Milwaukee – however there is more fun to come at Tosafest on Saturday…
Jenny Floria
I have a friend from NY who came in to go to the IM in Madison as well! She just did the IM Canada one a few weeks ago — you guys are crazy!
Sounds like you guys get back to WI a lot and make the most of every minute.