IMAZ Swag: Scene 1, Act 1

(Standing up from my chair) "Hi, I'm Comm's and I'm a swag whore."

(Group in unison)"Hi, Comm's."

(One lone Ironman bedazzled in M-dot gear in the back row)"Keep c'mon back man, it works."

aaaaaaand scene.

As you can see from the photo I have already sampled the expo of Ironman Arizona. I must say I am slightly disappointed. First the race colors this year suck. Brown with gold M-dot. I remarked that the race jerseys looked like chocolate. Come on, who the eff wears dark brown unless your Leon Phelps. Second, this is Phoenix. Who the heck wears long sleeve polar fleece or cotton sweat shirts here. Give me a break. Yet the expo is overflowing with these thick, IV inducing clothing items.

However I did get an orange towel; orange being the color of AZTRICLUB and my personal favorite. An extra race belt just because I couldn't help myself, a Christmas ornament with race logo, and couple of stickers for the swim bucket/ transition seat. I really wanted a collared shirt from this race and it looks like that ain't happening. I also wanted a very light weight long sleeve technical pullover. One can only hope.

Inside/Out sports was not letting anyone in their tent so I will undoubtedly be walking through there and getting some odds and ends.

I thought I would take a photo of the transition area (TA) without any bikes in it. In 72 hours this place will have 2,200 bikes racked in it. Multiply that times a rough average of $2,500 invested in each bike and you have $5.5 million dollars planted on one football field.

In full disclosure, you may notice a blue bottle on the shelf behind the swag. Thats for my camp stove. Many times instead of going out to eat I bring in freeze dried or dehydrated hiking food and fire up the stove in my office to boil water. This is especially necessary when I spend my entire lunch time working out.