Today was a long but such a great day!
It started at 5:30 AM. Got up got dressed got the wife and kid up and got in the car and west we went. Now of course it was snowing all night in Spokane so there was a good new 4-6 inches on the ground on top of the 7 or so already there. Needless to say the trip was a little slow going but I have definitely driven in worse.
I was trying to get to some presentations at the expo that were late in the morning, nothing really important just tips on eating the day before right, injuries and course tips, you know the same ol' stuff at any marathon expo. But today would not be the day for that. No biggie. I had just never really planned a trip around a run before and wanted to immerse myself into this race. I guess I really just want to relish it and reap the reward of 7 months of hard work and doing something I said I was gonna do and actually did it!
So we didn't get in to Seattle til noon, checked in to our hotel which we did change last minute from the host hotel which is the Westin to a Hyatt much closer to the starting line. It might be ok for guys that run a sub 3:30 to warm up with a 0.9 mile jog to the start but when you are running 5 hours, every step counts! Plus there were ALOT of rude people at that hotel today and the elevators were lagging something huge! Then we rode the monorail to the expo got our stuff and luckily let us pick up Jeff's stuff as he wouldn't get in to town til later in the evening. We got some decent stuff, nothing really exceptional, but the shirts this year are really rockin' I cant even wait to wear it. All I have to say is Mariners colors! (pics will follow in the post report)
Went back to the room and let my 16 month old go ape shit on it, then headed out to dinner at Buca de Beppo. Now I am back just relaxing and hoping I get some sleep tonight. I do have to thank everyone for their support and well wishings. I hope you know that those do filter in to my thoughts during my runs and really do help during the "down times". So thank you to all of you!
Hence I will call it a night and tomorrow I will conquer!
I look forward to hearing the race report! I did the 5k the day before but I avoided the expo - I didn't think of the free schwag! On another note, I really liked how they didn't make you walk through the expo to get your packet. That pissed me off in Berlin! It took forever to get packets!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip: No races in Seattle in late November.
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