I know I’m “only” running the Half Marathon, but I totally still need carbs, right? 🙂 To get a good start, I headed downtown last night to have dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse with this fine bunch:

I had told Jose that he wouldn’t be the only non-runner, and I really thought he wouldn’t! But some people couldn’t make it at the last minute, so he had to sit through dinner listening to all of us talk about every aspect of running. I kid — he was a good sport. He said after walking around the expo with me for little while, he formed a good image in his head of what a typical runner looks like. He said he could pick out the ones that were running and the ones that were just significant others. That made me laugh.
I know I’m “only” running the half marathon, but I totally had a race-anxiety dream last night. Considering the fact that I really don’t feel worried about this race, I’ll chalk it up to anxiety on behalf of others who are running the full! Anyway, I dreamed I was running a half marathon in Kansas City (random), except they started the race in groups of about 50 people. I was the slowest in my group, and after 5 minutes I was running alone. And then I reached the first checkpoint (the race had checkpoints of some kind) and couldn’t figure out the clue that I needed to move on. So I started following someone else (the fast people from the 2nd wave had caught up to me), but then I ended up off course. And I went to mile 1, 2, 3, and then 10, 11, and 12. And I was all upset because I was almost to the finish line, but I had missed half of the course! The course wasn’t well marked and I couldn’t follow it!
Anyway.
I’ll be heading downtown later to check into my hotel, have dinner with James and Chrissy and Liz, and hang out. James and Chrissy are in town for her to run the marathon; I’d forgotten they were coming until she emailed earlier this week. It’s always fun to see college friends.
The ever-changing weather forecasts are converging and it looks like it’s gonna be cold in the morning after all, with the biiiiig cold front arriving after all. I’m hoping for no rain, but doubting that we’ll make it through the entire morning without a drop.
Good luck to all who are running tomorrow!