Twas The Night Before The Ultra...

Wow, it's actually here. Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and for having faith in me. Aside from prepping my food, I spent the majority of the day laying around. I woke up feeling really nervous but I'm doing much better now. I picked up my race packet and it was calming to see so many other Lone Rangers. As part of the packet pick up, I got weighed, had my blood pressure checked, my pulse taken and my temperature taken. They do this to establish a baseline for all the Lone Rangers. They will be checking the same stats tomorrow throughout the day to make sure we all stay healthy. The guy checking me out said they are looking to ensure you don't lose more than 3-4 pounds. He didn't seem positive so I'm hoping they give us a little more leeway than that. I lost 3 lbs on a 20 miler once.

So I'm home, fed (ate my pre run dinner of chicken and brown rice) and thinking of heading to bed soon. I'm getting up around 5am tomorrow to shower, eat and take my time packing things up. The weather forecast for tomorrow is perfect...83, sunny and breezy!!

Here's a picture of the food I'm taking...am I running or going to a picnic?? (Ensure, boiled potatoes, soft pretzel nibs, peanut butter M&Ms, pop tarts, peanut butter on bread, and oyster crackers. I also have some Clif bloks and jelly beans packed)

Here's a picture of the shirt and hat we got in our bag. We got to pick what color shirt we wanted out of blue, red and orange.

If anyone is interested in tracking me, I'm bib # 150. http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rIboqWJjl5YI8ja0Rw0Cwvg&output=html