Panama would be more fun with Booze and Tyedye

So i'm in Panama City Beach on the eve of my first 70.3 triathlon. Thats 1.2 miles swimming, 56 miles biking 13.1 miles running. Yesterday was spent driving down to the beach with two of my favorites. I rode in a car for over 5 hours and I promise for the first 4 my biggest rival and one of my biggest friends Jody knew every song that came on the radio. Lot's of random filler songs that just make it on to albums to fill cds (or tapes, lots were old) she sung along ... quite amusing. That amusment did a great job of keeping my mind off of the task thats ahead of me in the next couple of days. But as the sun set, a beautiful sunset it was, my mind began to wonder thinking about everything that could go wrong in the next couple of days.
Went out to dinner with the gang with the gang to get some seafood and seeing the other athletes out, really got me to thinking that i'm not ready for this. Luckily they are here also offering for positive words.Today, friday, I don't feel the exact same way after a practice open water swim and calming down a bit. I learned today during my practice, that if for some reason I need to rest during the swim tomorrow don't roll over and stare in the sky. That coupled with the motion of the ocean will trigger some severe nausea. I definitely ended my open water swim today puking, somehow it's sort of comforting. Maybe it was the Transformer on lunch who I consulted with about a Tri Model. Swim/fish, Bike/Gizmoduck, Run/Kenyan maybe. He gave me pretty sound advice that hopefully i can use tomorrow to help me stay calm. (awesome statue in a mellow mushroom on the beach) Aldrin also pointed out that he thinks God put my arms where my legs should go and vice versa. One day he will eat those words. As the sun sets on this day I hope and pray that tomorrow is kind to me. At some point during the week hopefully i'm posting a race report on a huge step on my journey to ironman glory, and not a post of all the things i've done wrong. Thanks everyone for the encouraging words, hopefully I will you and myself proud in the AM.