Race Day Prep...

Coach Tara asked us to do this for one of our mental race day preps... so I put in my race plans and thought  hey why not blog it as well!!!! So this is how my big race and the evening before will go June 15 and June 16!!!!

 Friday Evening go to hotel....triple check I have everything I will need for race day..Have a cup of Coffee and GO TO BED,,,,Yes I drink coffee a lot.( coffee is my substitute for ADHD meds)....even right before going to bed... Sleep??  those of you who know me...will know that that my brain never seems to stop and I do not sleep much and even when i do sleep it is never more then a couple of hours at a time.... is not something I do well even on a GREAT NIGHT!!!! go to bed around 930 or 10 pm...sleep an hour or two get up go potty...midnight go back to bed for and try to go back to sleep...2 am sleep till 430 when ...

...Alarm goes off...PANIC!!!!!   where am I ??  Oh yeah,   a hotel.....What time is it>>>>   430 AM Oh OK I did not over sleep.   roll out of the bed and go potty....COFFEEEEE,,,,,, peanut butter on a round...Get dressed.. shorts, heart rate mnrt, garmin watch, FLIP FLOPS!!!!   drink water....another coffee!   another water...    go potty....again!

Double check transition bag and bike... wet suit, goggles, timing chip, helmet, bike pump, sunblock, GU, Fruit squeezes,,, Cera drink water bottles, running shoes, change of clothes for after the race....plus a dozen other things I will bring with me just in case.

Drive to race..check in....set up bike and gear for the day...sip on coffee and water....have another round but with cream cheese instead.... find friends and hang out till almost race time.

GO POTTY AGAIN!!!

Wiggle into wet suit...waddle like a stuffed penguin...to the start line....gun goes off,,,hit water and swim, bi lat breathing and swim  chest press and swim and do it all over a million times,,,,,

Out of the water...trot to bike stripping off wet suit as I go....put on bike helment and shoes and sun glasses...switch garmin to bike... pedal  drink pedal  drink pedal,eat  drink  pedal eat drink round one: done round two YEAH... eat drink pedal eat drink pedal....56 miles down....

Drop off PIPPY and change shoes and grab Garmin off bike and put back on watchband...put on running belt and shoes...walk, trot, run, walk, trot, run, drink...eat....trot, walk, run...trot, trot, trot, run, walk, run...   13.1 MILES!!!!! FINISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SMILE...HUGS>>>JOY>>>PRIDE ACCOMPLISHMENT!!!!  WATER, BEER, POTATO CHIPS!!!!!!!!  LOTS of POTATO CHIPS!!!  ( my food addiction: can you tell?)

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