The "I'm in Cleveland and my marathon is tomorrow" post

I'm in Cleveland and my marathon is tomorrow!!

I was up at 6 to watch Theresa Edwards rock her first 5K. Then I made my way over to the expo in Euclid and got all kinds of cool stuff. Then I went home, made some sweet potatoes for my dad's 60th birthday party, tried to sleep, couldn't, so I've pretty much been playing on Facebook for the past few hours. Perhaps it was a bad time to sign up for text alerts, all day my phone has been blowing up with well wishers, suggestions for my playlist, and other incessant ramblings.

Vote in my Facebook poll if you want to help me decide which headband to wear! The choices are in my previous post.

The playlist, it's almost done! I'll post screenshots later tonight.

This is a pic I took last night of all the stuff I packed:

I just need to get a few things from target -- mainly rain gear. My alarm is set for 5 am, I'm being very good about what I'm eating and drinking, and I'm ready to rock this thing!

I'm really excited for everyone racing tomorrow!

Expo time!

I'll do my "I'm in Cleveland and it's the day before race day" post in a sec, but first I have some cool stuff to show off from the expo in Cleveland today! 

As an added bonus I met up at the expo with Carl and Deb, two online friends from the Daily Mile, always weird meeting people you know online in person for the first time, but that's just the new world order of things!

Here's my race number and shirt, I love how they have both mens and womens' shirts: 

If you didn't look closely enough, they know exactly what runners will want after the race: 

I probably didn't need to buy 4 Bondi Bands, but I did: (see my Facebook question if you would like to help me select which one to wear!)

They forgot to mail it to me, but I finally got my race belt for registering early.

After tomorrow, I will have earned the right to put the oval on my car. And I just like the keychain. 

I plan on following the 4:45 pacer for the first half. This is my wristband:

The swag was somewhat disappointing (and yes, that sample does in fact say "anti-monkey butt").

I sampled these energy bars and they were very yummy, so I bought a box.

13 hours...

I am going to run a marathon

I am running the Cleveland Marathon on May 15. A marathon is 26.2 miles. And I just paid $70 for it. And checked this box:

 

I still get a little giddy sometimes when I select this option:

I'd make this another "what the #@%@ was I thinking post", but in this blog's short life there have been one too many of those. 

Exhibit A. 

Exhibit B.

Exhibit C.

I can't believe I'm actually going to do this. MIT, don't fail me!