Equalizer Run Plan

I have been unusally slow about getting my race stategy laid out for this weekend and I am not sure why. You would think with such a long race that I would be paying more attention to it. I think the weather changing, being busy at work and trying to get the house winterized have kept me distracted. This morning I have finally put my plans on paper.

Thursday:
Rest, start hydrating. Foods: carbs and protein. Water aerobics, stretch. Good night sleep tonight

Friday:
Stay off feet as much as possible, hydrate all day. Big breakfast and taper meals throughout day. 5:30pm is the prerace meal. Keep it light and stick with the pasta and avoid heavy fiber foods. Water is my friend. Short run and lots of stretching. Get to bed at regular time around 10pm.

Saturday
6:00am: Wake and eat breakfast: Cliff bar (220) with water, get dressed and start slowly on the baby food. Shooting to eat 3 jars by 7 (370 calories total), gather rest of equipment, load car and chill until 7. Pee
7:15: Leave for race, eat 1 gel with water on way to race
7:35ish: arrive at race site, pee, set up “pit” area
7:50: 1 gel with water
7:55: pee
7:58: strip off extra clothes
8:00: Race start – Run

During race: 10-12 oz powerade, 1 gel with 6 oz water and salt tablet – each hour, aleve as needed

I have learned a lot from the Ironman about my feet. I will have them taped up and properly bandaided to start with instead of waiting until I have run 13 miles and severe blisters have formed.
I am excited to get out and race, but also nervous because I haven’t gotten near as much running in as I would have liked. I ran 3 miles on Tuesday and my upper back was stiff Wednesday. I am going to be so sore after this race, but it will be worth it. I hope the rest of my body holds up as I have developed a few achy areas from working

Final week before the Equalizer

Final week going into the Equalizer run on Saturday. The weather looks nice but the temperature is border line right now on what I want to wear. Right now I am going to have to wear pants over shorts. Didn't want to do that, but anything under 40 degrees I decided was to cold for shorts. Also, I don't feel ready. I haven't ran much in the past 2 weeks because of work and this week I can't really run since it is taper week plus I have a million and a half things to get done at my house before it gets to cold out. Friday is the prerace dinner. Kind of weird to me because who wants to eat a huge meal the night before you have to run that far. It should be on Thursday night. I probably won't eat much there, but hey, it is included in the race fee. This week I am going to try to run 3-4 days 2-4 miles just to get my body loosened up and use to running again. And start drinking water, but not as much as I drank before the Ironman. Holy crap, I do not want to have to pee that much again.

Chrissie Wellington = Awesome

A very busy work week has kept me from my daily triathlon reading, but I finally have had a chance to read up on this past weekends Ironman Championships. I knew Chrissie had won the women's, but didn't hear anything other than that. She is awesome. I would love to train or drive a car beside her while she trains for an entire build cycle just to see what kind of workouts she does. Great Job Chrissie. Back to work for me.

Equalizer Run

Training for essentially an ultramarathon hurts. Why would anyone train for just a marathon? To much running, lol. The last couple weeks I have been running about 4 days a week with 2 of those days 5 miles, one day 10-12, and a long run of 14-18 miles. My IM training was not this, but I think it helped me a lot that I could spread out my run days more and extend my aerobic run with a bike effort. I have not been on my bike in about a month. I don't ride outside in the cold mostly because I just don't have the gear to and I have been super lazy about putting it on the trainer. I have gone to a couple spin classes and water aerobics to fill in my "extra" training time. This week I will be at work for about 12 hours a day because I have a project due next week. It sucks because I really need this week to get a final good workout week before my race next Saturday. On top of it all, I am sick. Sunday I ran 18 miles and came home and didn't do anything the rest of the day. I am pretty sure that is when I started getting sick. I had no energy and later that evening I had to blow my nose all the time. Yesterday I could start feeling it in my face and head. It's all in my sinuses. Great. I hope it doesn't turn into an infection. I bought sinus med this morning and will pop those pills all day. It actually gets worse at night because I am laying down and it all runs into my head. So I will continue sucking down water and pills. I am also pretty sure that when I was walking through the skywalk into work, I had snot just about ready to drip from my nose...Nice.

My New Bike!!!!!

Hahaha...Just kidding, but Man I would love to have this bike.