T Minus 24-Hours and Counting

Unfortunately and fortunately we are sad to report today was not as crazy as the past few days. We awoke this morning at the typical 6 am and sat around and got the Kotland Coffee Shakes®. About 8 o’clock Peter and I rode down to Dig-Me beach and did a quick 1 mile swim. On the way out we saw a Sea Turtle. We swam up to it and sat about 1 foot from it and watched it circle around us. It was quite an awesome experience, especially when the turtle crapped on Peter’s face. I won the swim on the way back, I am not counting that he is doing the Ultraman tomorrow, I need the resume builder. Dean ran the 4 miles from the house and met us at the beach. It was a nice thanksgiving morning. We were changing clothes after our workouts and 4 time Ultraman world champ and PK team times member Shanna Armstrong strolled up.

She was about to swim when we informed her that the mandatory pre-race meeting was in 5 minutes. Let’s hope she makes it to the start line on time in the morning. The meeting was quite long and they introduced all of the athletes individually. When they introduced everybody’s favorite athlete (Peter Kotland), they mentioned he puts fear into the other athletes when they see him on the start line. Is that the same fear his athletes experience each week when they receive schedules? If so Dean and I hate it for those guys.

After the meeting we headed back to the ole home-stay and began the process of packing for a two day adventure. We will stay at the top of “volcano” tomorrow night. We then went to Wal-Mart in the afternoon to get the last of the important stuff. The most important thing we bought was the hot pink duct tap and fishing weights. We then put our brains together and under the lead of Cactus Boy Sinatra, we rigged a bright ribbon to hang from the boat to lead Peter in the swim. Finally it was dinner time, tonight Cactus Boy cooked us a pasta surprise. Erring on the side of caution not to make the sauce too mild, Sinatra dumped a ¼ bottle of hot sauce and 4 tbsp of red pepper seasoning into the sauce. After 2 minutes of eating there was a puddle of sweat under Dean and Peter who had already take his shirt off…this hot concoction was do to Peters comment, “I vont the empty stomach in de morning.” The wan (Czech for van) is packed and the crew and athlete are relaxed.

The van is packed, nutrition plan is set and the gear for tomorrows first leg of the race is ready to go. Now its time to get er’ done. Mr. Kotland is ready to pull out a can of whoop ass!! There is no turning back, no backing down, its three days of pain and time to throw down some times to make people see that this Kotland guy is still a threat and an animal. One goal: World Record… stay tuned…. It’s going to be a good ride.

Tomorrow morning 6:30 am we will be underway and will update tomorrow night.