Night before:
- check time and distance with partner
- clean shoes, loosen laces
- charge Forerunner, clear, set for 1 alarm, 0.5 auto-lap
- clean and fill Camelbak (100g sugar, 4g lite salt, twist of citrus)
- lay out: shirt, compression shorts, thin socks, Vaseline, bandages, powder, sunglasses, bandanna, towel
- grind coffee, fill kettle, clean press
- prep breakfast, snack
Morning of run:
- start coffee
- apply Vaseline, bandages, powder
- dress
- stretch #1
- mmm, coffee
- fill and ice water for return
- ice beer for later
- eat
- poop
- gear up
- stretch #2
- run
just one poop?
Just one!
Today 15 miles, 2:27 (9:48/mi). Very muggy; 94% humidity when I started out. I had hoped to run 18 miles, but had to be happy with 15.
Wow. You are a beast. The only thing I’m missing is the loosening of the shoe laces the night before. Is there some science there? A ritual? Did you also forget setting out the ibuprofen? A beast!
Naw, just trying to minimize the time I spend fumbling around in the dark. The cleaning is more important; I got a nasty blister once from running with a rock in my shoe which was too small to feel until it was too late.
I try to avoid ibuprofen; I do enough damage to my liver anyway…