Number 1
Spend Wednesday night out drinking for your brother’s birthday, and stay up way too late waking up totally dehydrated and in desperate need of caffeine!
Number 2
Inhale massive amounts of processed sugars and carbs!
Number 3
Continue to drink from the world’s largest bottle of prosecco.
Number 4
Schedule your last 3 mile run for Thanksgiving day, which is nearly impossible to accomplish due to Numbers 1-3.
Number 5
Spend the day before your race (aka Black Friday) on your feet shopping and waiting in hour long lines for really cute clothes!
Number 6
Spend 48 straight hours talking non stop so that you have a scratchy throat and hoarse voice.
Number 7
The night before the race, fill up on sweet potato pie by the forkful.
Number 8
Then proceed onto a random-thrown-together dinner of leftovers including sleep-inducing turkey.
I would encourage you not to follow my lead with the worst race prep ever (goodbye PR), but feel free to borrow my prerace positive attitude knowing that I had an awesome 3 days (and got some really good Black Friday deals) and that no matter what happens tomorrow, I am so happy and thankful to be running 13.1 miles. Until then, I will be rehydrating and sipping tea with my legs up thinking warm thoughts before I wake up to the coldest day since last winter! Brrr!
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Good luck! The race will be awesome. You never know, sometimes the body needs to be left alone and given time to just indulge and be stress-free. You might surprise yourself! 🙂 But either way, have fun!
I agree! My body is need of some down time so I am open and ready to be surprised and at the very least ready to have some fun.
Good luck! At least you can say you enjoyed the experience leading up to the race. 🙂 Maybe all of the fun will lead to a PR!
Definitely a Thanksgiving PR…best time with the family EVER!
I think this is the perfect way to prep for a race ; )
I’ll let you know afterwards if I agree : ) I’m just hoping not to cramp, get frost bite, and fall over at mile 5!
Have a wonderful time-anyway you are supposed to carb load -right? Life is too short to worry about being perfect-
Thanks Debi! That is the perfect comment!
Haha, your post made me laugh and I bet that 50% of the people racing with you today spent the past few days doing the exact same thing! Good luck today!!
Based on the pre race conversation, I would have to agree!
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