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Time: 10:15am
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I am officially done with my training. I started this journal almost SIX months ago, and now here I am, less than 48 hours from the marathon.
I did a quick last run just now, and I felt good. It's pretty muggy out this morning, and wet. I came in and said to Dave, I feel good! Now I just have to do that thirteen times in a row on Sunday. No problem!
Last night I read the history of the marathon on the website and it gave a little blurb about every year since it started in 1976. For almost every year, they listed how many people started... and then how many people finished. The two numbers were always quite different! At times, up to 2,000 people who started didn't finish. That makes me scared! Why do people drop out? I'M GOING TO FINISH, NO MATTER WHAT. One year, only 500 people out of thousands didn't finish and it was their best success rate ever. That's still 500 people! That's insane.
There was also a place on the site to "meet the pace leaders" and I found out that people line up all the way to a 6-hour finishing time goal. I'm going to find the 4:30 pace team and run with them. So I for sure won't be the last person to finish, not by far! I mean, even if I have to WALK the last six miles, I could still finish in an ok time. Not that that will happen, but it's good to give myself that freedom.
I AM SO EXCITED. We're going to expo tonight and I will get my bib number and all that. Then tomorrow we're going to rent movies and veg out all day and drink lots of fluids and I'm going to ice and stretch as much as I can. My back and knees hurt again today - after only two miles - but I'm trying not to think about it. The pasta dinner is at 6pm at the Hilton tomorrow night... I read about it: three courses, salad, pasta, and cheesecake, and water and champagne will be served. How freakin fun. Then I hope to be in bed by no later than 9:00pm tomorrow night! I hope I can sleep.... We'll probably be up by 4:30am or so... I never shower before I run but I'm going to shower before the marathon. Millions of people will be watching me and my people will be hugging me at the finish line and taking pics... I don't want to be uglier or stinkier than I'll already be! Then we'll need time to eat breakfast and digest and make as many bathroom trips as necessary (oh, Lord) and then get down there in plenty of time, by like 7:00! I'll probably be a big old nervous wreck that morning. But maybe not. Man, it's going to be crazy.
Alright, I'll probably post tonight from Christi's after the expo! I haven't seen my girl in two and a half months! I'm excited to go... I'll probably leave here in about two hours. Right now I have to shower and pack! Bye!
(p.s. It's 11am right now, not 8 something like livejournal has posted. I don't know why it's messed up. Ok bye!!!)