Hello Painateers,
 
Close to 70 of you have braved the fear and embraced the Pain by entering this year.  We have 23 Solo Painathletes, 4 teams and 35 Half Painathletes (36 if I suit up!) which should make a great crowd.  I hope you all enjoy it as much as past years.

Monday Briefing
Great turnout for mondays briefing and we have most racetops and racecards handed out, which should save good time at registration on the day.  No worries if you couldn't make it, you can pick up your gear on the day. 
 
Apologies I didn't have time to re-edit the entire powerpoint but time has been short lately.  Hope you had all your questions answered and feel it was worthwhile attending. 

Handing in sponsorship money
If handing in sponsor cash on raceday please put it in a clear ziplock bag with a list of your sponsors (including those requiring tax receipts), total amount and your mailing address.  We will hand this on to Variety who will process and post out tax receipts.

Spare water bottles
For full and team Painathletes, you can each leave 2 filled water bottles in the crate at registration to exchange for your empties at the Truth refuelling stop.

Recovery Party
Whether half, team or full, all are welcome to the 5.30-8.30pm recovery party at Physio Solution, 3rd floor 31 Outram St, West Perth.  By sunday we will hopefully have a full complement of physios to help ease your pain and a warm meal to boot.  Your racecard is your ticket for treatment so don't hand it in when you cross the line, just get it checked and hang on to it.

Road rules
As emphasized in the briefing, please adhere to all road rules when on the bike, particularly in relation to red lights.  Save your energy for the sand, hills, loops and steps and keep us and yourself out of trouble.

GPS Painathlon route & Mapmyride link
Leah Glass has kindly provided a mapmyride route (link below) which may prove of interest to some of you
http://www.mapmyride.com/ride/australia/-perth/851127866772529496

Painathlon.com resources
If you haven't found it yet, the Resources section of the website has a good deal of information available to download and/or read.  The directions documents may be particularly useful to print out and have with you in case the need arises. 
Also see the nutrition article by 2007 winner Brad Hosking.

Zig Zag shortcuts
On the last familiariser on sunday, 6 of us ran the Zig Zag and marked in yellow tape the easiest route to cut down to the bottom from the carpark.  After the initial section the next continues directly over the road.  Coming to the 2nd road crossing turn right and before the hairpin you should see another yellow-tape marked cut across.  Then it's a short jog along the road to the final shortcut on the right.  In the spirit of the event, please only use shortcuts on the way down.

Looking forward to seeing you all there on sunday.  Avoid rocking up at 6.45am as you may miss the start if the rego line is packed.
 
 
Jono Hague
Team Pain