Serenading 300

On the plus side, being in Vegas did give us the rather weird opportunity to celebrate walking 300 miles while standing on the banks of the Grand Canal listening to some guy from Milwaukee serenade a newly married couple in a fake Italian accent while pretending to paddle and electric powered gondola down the Grand Canal (on the second floor of the Venetian Hotel).  Got to love Vegas.

300 miles behind us!!!!   Yay!

Vegas Baby!

After altitude training in the Rocky Mountains, it was time for some heat acclimatization in the Nevada Desert.  The venue....Las Vegas of course.  Luckily it just so happens that the Interop computer networking show was going on too.  There there you have it, a two day stint to get some more sales leads and the opportunity to train on the famous Las Vegas strip.  Sadly work got in the way like you would not believe but I still managed a four miler on day one and eight on day two due to a massively late aircraft that got me back home at one o'clock in the morning.  Grrr.

As luck would have it also the company had us staying at the Mandalay Bay (same venue as the show) so the walk on day two comprised an up and a back past Luxor, Excalibur, New York New York, Monte Carlo, Aria, Belagio, Ceasar's, Mirage, Treasure Island, Fashion Show Mall.....cross the road and back past Wynn, Palazzo, Venetian, Harrah's, Flamingo, Paris, Planet Hollywood, MGM and back to Mandalay Bay.

......during which I must have second hand smoked about three packs and lost 50 IQ points.  Did I mention that I don't care for Vegas :-)