After a good night of sleep, I woke up this morning and headed out into the chilly cool air for my final day of tapering before the big race. The temperatures have really dropped in Baltimore over the past day to where it’s below freezing during the night; therefore, I’m a little bit worried about how cold it’s going to be before tomorrow’s race (i.e., I always seem to just about freeze to death before every marathon; case in point, I even bundle up for the D-News Marathon because even 60 degrees at the starting line feels cool to me). Anyway, for my morning run, I jogged from my sister’s house on Yolando down to Lake Montebello where I completed one lap around the lake. I headed back by way of climbing the stairs at the Montebello Edison Elementary School then up 33rd Street. The total distance of this run was 4.2 miles at a very relax pace.
After the Stewart and Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, along with my sister and brother-in-law, we headed over to the Washington Convention Center for the MCM Expo. With over 40,000 runners, the Expo was enormous with numerous vendors and lots of freebees. Representatives were there from a number of marathons around the country, thus it was fun to check out the different cities and courses that I’ll be daydreaming about running.
Finally, before taking the drive down to DC, I completed my non-running workout of 300 sit-ups and 30 push-ups. |