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Monday, July 18, 2011

Pre-Race leadup!

I'm sitting here at work, a worthless lump.  I am EXHAUSTED from the thrill of yesterday.  It is pretty funny when I sit still for about 30 mins, then try to stand up.  HEH.

Let's chat about Friday-Saturday of this weekend?

Friday - work FLEW by.  I jetted out of there a bit early and went straight home.  I don't think I mentioned it on here (we were Not Talking About It), but I sprained my left ankle pretty good at the Dirty Dash with Jill the Saturday prior.  As in, it was still pretty swollen.  And God Forbid I rolled my ankle outwards.  YOUCH.  Anyways.



Jill looks barely dirty.

This is when I started to get pretty nervous.  We headed to bed a decent hour.

Saturday was, well, interesting.  We slept in a bit.  Usually when we sleep in, I am ravenous when I wake up.  Not today.  I managed to choke down yogurt & granola, then sat on the couch, fretting.  Around 3, after a quick nap (lazy day!), I knew I needed to get some more carbs down before dinner with the ladies.  Cue some steel cut oatmeal - I had to force myself to eat.  My stomach was not down with this plan.

At 4 we left to head downtown to pick up the racebibs at the 'expo' and have dinner at Pacific Place.  I, of course, had an additional agenda item: return some stuff at Lululemon.  I wasn't going to buy anything to replace what I was returning.  Fail, of course. :)


It has a really pretty super-fine lime stripe.  Me gusta!

Headed to the expo, found Mel & Jayne.  Didn't find my packet.  :( They didn't have it.  Cue FREAKOUT.  They gave me a new bib number and packet and sent me on my way.  Okay?  The 'Expo' was about 8 booths in an empty ballroom with weird 80's music blasting.  Uhm.   Kerrie called - she was still over an hour out of Seattle.  I ran back in, found Zoe, picked up Kerrie's packet, and we all headed over to the Nordstrom sale. :)

Found a super cute North Face rain jacket 30% off - it was so fun to have the girls there to give me thumbs up/thumbs down. 



More wandering...we find Kerrie...and have dinner.  The menu was kind of small, and I was scared about eating anything too fancy or cheese-filled.  I ended up getting a chicken/pasta/veggie dish that had a reduction-type sauce on it - hearty but not too filling.  YAY!

As we sat down to dinner, I realized that I hadn't had much water so far that day.  Whoops.  I chugged about 5 glasses of water at dinner, but unfortunately was still thirsty. :\

Trying to diagram where we were meeting in the morning.  Splenda = parking, spoons = trees

Dinner folk!

We got home a bit after 9pm.  I started to lay out my outfit and pack Mike's bag.

The plan was for Mike to have a bag with him as he met us around the course.  Since I hadn't had a chance to really iron out kinks in my long run plan, I wanted to be PREPARED.

Bag list:
Nathan Handheld w/ nuun
Body Glide
Extra pair of socks
Sunglasses
Visor
Gum (two flavors)
Chomps
Gu
M&Ms (for after :) )


Around 11, I finally headed to bed.  I read for a bit (finished up this book) and then laid there.  Quietly.  Mike & dog came to be around 12 (I was still up).  By the time everyone got to bed and settled down, it was after 12:30.  I conked out around 12:45, and then slept solidly until two minutes before my alarm went off at 5:30 for RACE MORNING!!!

Me & Mike after my mandatory sbux am run.

4 comments:

  1. More, more, more! I'm so glad your ankle held out, I had no idea you were injured!

    Also, I'd like to request more pictures of JJ. He's famous after all.

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  2. oh man running on a bad ankle and hip!!! You are a rockstar for going for it!!!

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  3. That was a weird expo. The music was SO loud, it was like an awkward 80's nightclub. Looking forward to your next post, congrats on your race!

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  4. You are soo amazing and such an inspiration to me already! I just found you through the other blogs and am in tears reading back on your posts! I am running my first ever on Sept 4th and see so much of me in you! I hope I rock it half as well as you did! Thank you so much and I look forward to following you and learning more about you! Have the best day EVER!
    MIchelle

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