5:40AM
8 miles yesterday . . .I wore my trail shoes. It once again poured rain on me for 5 minutes. 5 minutes was long enough to get everything waterlogged so I felt like I was lugging around 250 pounds.
In 30 minutes I am going to run 18 miles. My knees hurt. My feet hurt. I truly am not looking forward to this. I know, however, that about a half mile into the run I am going to start feeling alive.
My plan is this:
GELS at 3.5 7 11 and about 14 miles
I ate spaghetti, lasagna and manicotti last night and a bowl of oatmeal.
I will drink 22 ounces by mile 14 and then fill up again for the final 4 miles. I don't want neglect of nutrition and hydration to be the factors that cause me to stumble . . .here's the deal . . .after mile 7 my body starts to ache anyway . . I want it to ache because of the running not because I was too lazy to give it energy.
18 miles .. ready or not...
This is it . . .
