12 hours and counting
Well there is now less than twelve hours before the race starts. All sorts of thoughts are going through my mind now. Have I trained enough? Am I prepared? The thought frequentally goes through my mind that I have never run the full distance before, let alone up a mountain. Not too much I can do about that now. It is what it is.
The last few days have been good, I have tried to get a lot of complex carbs and protein in. I am well rested, I feel like I have energy to spare, my only niggle is that I have a dull ache in my quads. Should be fine though, is probably more from a lack of training this past week more than anything.
I am a little bit concerned about the weather, the forecast for hobart is morning showers and 15C. Which sounds like providing the rain holds off pretty good running conditions. But that is Hobart and the conditions around the pinnacle will be very different. Apparently what they do in bad conditions is turn the race around before the top. I will be absolutely gutted if they do but I think it has to be pretty bad (like our last training run!) before they do that.
Lastly thankyou to you all who have supported and encouraged me in my preparation. Like I have said before the best thing about bodyspace is the diverse range of people all with the belief in themselves to be the best they can. Very hard to be negative when you surround yourself with people like that.
November 22, 2008 at 2:39 am
Good luck man hope you do well