Bay Day

It's 7 a.m. and my daughter just threw up for the fourth time abut 15 minutes ago. She seems in good spirits though: she's currently singing a tune from the 2-year-olds' catalogue of unintelligible songs.

I figure I got maybe six hours total of interrupted sleep. I feel tired.

But I'm racing today. My wife, however, has decided that leaving our daughter for five hours today is not the best parenting plan. My mother-in-law is scheduled to look after both kids, but when you're sick, you want your mommy and that's all there is to it. Plus, if these things go as they usually do, daughter #2 will be illin' sometime in the next 24 hours. Then my wife and then me. Good times.

Anyway, I feel fine otherwise so might as well give it a go. I've put too much into this not to at least try. My wife, saint that she is, is on board with this plan.

So I'm currently eating my high carb breakfast of cottage cheese, canned fruit and granola and an english muffin with peanut butter and jam. I have the canned fruit/cottage cheese/granola thing every day but the english muffin is an addition. I'll slam back 16 ounces of water shortly so my body can get rid of what it doesn't need by race time.

I'm still excited, though less so. I'll do the best I can and be happy with whatever result comes.

Comments

[Matthew Henderson]

I have really enjoyed your Way to the Bay blog. Thanks for adding to my training and preparation for the race. Congratulations on hitting your goal time as well. This was my first race and I think I have caught the bug. To prepare for my next race I will put in some more long training runs, that last 5km was very very hard.

Thanks again
Matthew