3 more sleeps and counting. But wait, who’s counting?

Oh yeah… I have been for the last few weeks now. Around the Bay is just around the corner. I have been thinking about it so much; I’m soo excited and starting to feel so nervous… a few nerves never hurt though.

This week I have been trying to be more aware of my fluid and food intake. I have been drinking lots of water and 2-3 cups of green tea a day to try and change it up a bit. Drinking water has never been an issue for me as I have always drank A LOT of it. It’s rare to see me without my dented stainless steel water bottle.

yesterdays dinner: broccoli, mixed veggies, tomato, salmon with fresh lemon juice and salt. yum!

One thing I’m battling this week is being tired. Very tired. I’m getting my 8 hours of sleep, if not more but I’m just plain tired. In all fairness though, I had Thryogen injections on Monday and Tuesday, so my nuclear medicine doctor can check my thyroglobulin when I go for blood work tomorrow. I was a little nervous having this done the same week as my race but it’s all mind over matter, right? Mind over matter, baby… at least that’s what I keep telling myself.

I already bought some of the goodies that I’ll take for fuel during my race:

2 Chi3 Energy drinks
my favorite GU chomps
and of course GLIDE. I’ve never used it before although I want to avoid what happened last time on one of my long runs.

I still need to figure out what gear I’ll wear. I’ll do that Saturday night though because who knows what the weather will be like. Yesterday we had a major snow blizzard storm all day and it just kept falling. Just fabulous. Fingers crossed it will be gone by Sunday!

Today it is sunny out so things are looking up!

This morning I ran an easy 6.24km run… I’m glad it was short because it was icy out. Either way, it always feels good to get those legs moving eh?!

Have a great Thursday y’all!

What do you fuel with during a race?  Do you get nervous on race day or am I the only crazy that does?!