(Trying to) Relieve Race Day Stress

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Good morning! Happy Friday! I can’t believe the weekend is almost here. This week really flew by!

Breakfast

This morning’s breakfast was a Sweet Breakfast Scramble with canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice in a jar.

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I had an almost-empty jar of Teddie Peanut Butter, so I cooked up the scramble and then poured it in to enjoy all of the melt-y peanut butter.

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I also drank a glass of Dandy Blend with almond milk. (Mal drank the rest of my pumpkin Americano this morning.)

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While I was eating my breakfast, Murphy stalked me waited patiently for me to finish and then give him the empty peanut butter jar to lick.

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He even followed me to the kitchen and back to my office when I got another scoop of peanut butter.

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Eventually, I gave him the jar, which he then managed to lick into a place where he could no longer get to it.

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Poor Murphy.

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Lunch

A few hours later, I started to get hungry, so I reheated half of an acorn squash with coconut butter and raisins.

And cooked a veggie burger in the microwave for lunch. I topped the veggie burger with avocado mixed with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

After lunch, I started packing for the weekend. I’m off to Washington, DC to run the Army 10-Miler with my college roommate, Katie, and some blog friends. I haven’t run very much lately, so I’m feeling a tad stressed out about it. I ran 7 miles on Tuesday, which went fine, so, hopefully, I’ll be okay on race day. I just feel totally unprepared and nervous about this race. Ten miles is far!

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Since I’m nervous/stressed/probably a bit under-trained for this race, I’m doing everything in my power to prepare for it, including:

  • Checking the weather for race day
  • Laying out all of my gear (and then checking and double-checking it about 10 times)
  • Previewing the course and elevation, so I can mentally prepare for hills and make them my bitch
  • Charging my Timex GPS Watch
  • Making plans to run the race with friends (I’m going to need all the help I can get!)
  • Adjusting my expectations to match my current health and fitness levels (basically, a PR is probably not possible, but that’s okay)
  • And I’m planning to get plenty of sleep tonight and tomorrow night

Question of the Day

Is there anything else I should do? How do you relieve stress and prepare for race day?

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