Getting excited

I'm getting so excited for my ironman! It is 3 weeks from this Sunday! Wahoooo! I've ridden the course before so I sort of know what to expect although I forgot most of it. I've been reading every IMLOO race report I can find on the internet and watching bike course recon videos on youtube.com. I'm so stoked for this race. I got a swim in tonight, that's a picture of my gym pool up top there. It's a 20 yard pool which isn't too bad, 18 yard pools suck. I swam 3 x 1000 yard sets for a 3000 yard workout. When I used to swim I'd do each set in just under 18 minutes and take a rest until my watch hit 20 mins before starting the next set. The harder I swim, the more rest I got. Tonight I was coming in just over 18 minutes, like 18:20 per set. That's pretty good I think since my swim goal at ironman is to cruise well within myself and hopefully pop out in about 1:15:00. I seem to be on track for such a swim. From the race reports I've been reading IMLOO race day is usually mid 90's and humid and water temp is often above 74 degrees so wearing wetsuits are illegal. I think the majority of the swim is with a current so it sort of cancels out the time loss from not wearing a wetsuit. IMLOO swim times are comparable to other ironman race times so I'm not sweating the details.