It's less than 24 hours from the marathon. There's really nothing I can do now to help me get any faster, just setting up everything to prepare for getting out the door and driving the 1 hour or so into SF for the race. I'm nervous, constantly trying to get information about the race, and also helping other runners on facebook with information to try to help them with the race.
Half Marathons are "easy" for me, as in I can pretty much be assured I will physically be able to finish. Full marathons, though, I've only conquered that distance twice, both times over 1 year ago, before I broke my foot. I was fitter then, and I think more naive about how hard the distance would be. About the only times I've ever felt really really spent were when I did the full marathon. You just never really know if something will happen to stop you during the course.
I love the feeling when I finish a race, especially sweet is when you're not sure you can do it, and you find out you can and the medal is being put around your neck. All those lonely long runs, waking up really early, begging off a late evening out to save some sleep time for training, culminating in one day when you either fail or you do it.
This has been the race I've wanted to do since 2007. Four years ago I was reading about this Nike Women's Marathon like a pipe dream, wondering if I could ever be able to do a marathon at all, much less being able to keep up a 14 minute per mile pace (my half marathon PR back then was a 15:30 ish minute mile...) Tomorrow it's going to happen. It must happen, because it's NWM or die trying!!!
On a less serious note, here's me messing around at the expo XD
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