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What to do the Week Before Your Marathon
By Paul
Run-On usually has a get together after each training session's marathons are complete so
we can all compare stories. I am already working on my excuses, tall tales and stretched
versions of the truth for my race.
Top five things to do the week before your marathon:
#5. Find the heaviest shoes you own and where them all week, work boots are great. When
you put your running shoes on they will feel like feathers.
#4. Rent "Chariots of Fire" and watch it four nights in a row. Then the night
before your race, when you can't sleep, start to watch it again, you will be asleep in 10
minutes
#3. Wear the baggiest clothes you own, especially underwear. All week long you will be
saying to yourself, "I must have lost weight and be fit, look how loose these clothes
fit". Also people at work will comment about you loosing weight because of the baggie
clothes.
#2. Find the wet clothes bag from last years race and check to see if your singlet, shorts
and socks need to be washed. Hint, if they crackle when you take them out of the bag or if
they smell like the inside of a used baby diaper they probably need to be washed otherwise
they may be good for one more race.
#1. Tell your spouse you can not do any chores; no vacuuming, carrying groceries, raking
leaves, etc., because you are in your prerace taper and don't want to injure yourself!
Relax and enjoy your race, you deserve it,
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