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Last Minute Prep For The NYC Marathon

October 31, 2017

I most definitely have pre-race jitters! They are very similar to the way I felt before my first Walt Disney World Marathon. I had to clean off my desk and get all my affairs in order so that I could focus on my agenda, timing, locations of where I need and want to be, and figure out my wake up and subway routes. Now I will begin my last-minute prep, pull out my suitcase and start tossing things in there as I remember them.

The TCS New York City Marathon Pavilion

I have been hearing a lot of great things about the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon Pavilion. It’s the location of the big wall of names, winner’s medals, Official NYC marathon merchandise, athlete appearances and interactive photo opportunities. Since this is my first and maybe only NYC marathon, I want to experience this. So I plan to take the train down on Friday and explore the pavilion. I also want to use the opportunity to get metro card that are prepaid for my family so they don’t have to worry about it on race day. This will also give me the opportunity to spend more time at the Expo on Saturday, hopefully meet up with the NYC Marathon Runner group from Facebook, then visit the 9/11 Memorial in the evening while it is lit up.

The Expo

I figured out the subway route to get from Grand Central to the Expo and printed out my Confirmation Form, per the recommendation of the NYRR site. The route to the expo is quite easy and just a 10 minute subway ride. I hope to spend a decent amount of time there and then sight see a little

Race Morning

The subway route from my hotel to the 7:45 ferry will be about 30 minutes. The ferry ride to the Staten Island area is 30 minutes where I will then catch a bus to the runners village. So I have estimated that I should be at the subway by 6:45. Thinking my wake up time will be around 4:30/5:00. It’s much better than a Walt Disney World wake up time; but still and early wake up when I really won’t start running until 11:00 a.m.!

My Last Minute List

Things I have to remember to do:

Make room on my phone for all the photos I will be taking
Charge all my devices
Charge my extra power packs
Load my iPod with my podcasts and music
Pack a backup alarm clock (due to Day Light Savings)
Make my list for the village (pack tea bags, oatmeal, cup, spoon, warm blanket, space blanket…)
Make my list for the family to bring so I can do a quick sponge bath and change out of my sports bra after the race before I go back to the hotel to catch the train to go home

I think I’m pretty close to ready. Maybe 80% ready. Once I start actually packing my suitcase with my running gear then I will feel a lot more real. I’m hoping to meet up with NYC Marathon Runner group from Facebook Saturday afternoon.

It’s exciting and I’m nervously excited!!!

NYC marathon training plan - Wife Mother Runner

26 Weeks Until The New York City Marathon

May 1, 2017

I hate bridges!

I have 26 weeks until the New York City marathon and I have felt a little nervous about it lately. I am not nervous about running a marathon, I’ve done that several times before. I am most nervous about running over the first bridge, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge! I hate bridges! I saw some photos with people running across the bridge and some are running in the middle. I think that is where I need to be, in the middle so I can’t see below me.

My New York City Marathon Training Plan

I am also nervous about training for the New York City Marathon. I have to go back to the beginning of my racing days and when I trained for my first marathon. I took it seriously. I have to stick to my schedule.

Training officially begins on June 3 with a 6 mile run. I will follow the Jeff Galloway training plan that I followed when I trained for my first Disney marathon. This program works well for me. I have been training with a 30/30 interval and that seems to get me through the miles with no injury and little pain.

My intention this Spring and Summer is to only run races that are going to support my training plan. I want to run for fun right now without a fixed schedule before I am on a more rigid plan. I have been cross training with weights and my beach body video library of exercises to help strengthen my glutes, hamstrings and quads. I think that is going to be important to keep me healthy and strong for this race.

This race is a serious race for me. There won’t be character stops like there are at the Disney World marathon, so I hope to achieve a decent finish time. My best marathon finish time to date is 5 hours and 40 minutes. I don’t anticipate I will have that great of a finish time; but I’d like to get anything under 6 hours.

NYC Here I Come!

March 3, 2017

So this happened yesterday…

I had always wanted to run the NYC Marathon, well almost always. My old boss ran it 15 years ago and that’s when I got fitted for a pair of running shoes and where my whole running story started on my treadmill. I hadn’t actually started running races until 2012 and my first marathon was on 2013. Since then I have run 8 marathons and NYC will be my 9th.

I applied for the NYC marathon lottery for the past 4 years and this year I finally got the email with a subject line that said “See you in New York City”! I was at the library with my family for girl scouts when I got the email at 7:40 at night and couldn’t jump up and down and scream; but I was really shocked. I had been checking my email all morning and waiting all day for the news. When I saw that official congratulatory email I was shocked. And then about 30 minutes later, after the high of realizing I was in, I cam crashing down from all the anticipation.

I am very excited and several of my family and friends will be there to cheer me on and I can’t wait to get my first Majors marathon medal! I know a few other friends of mine will be there so I hope I will be able to run with them or at least see them prior to, or out on the course!

Since this is my first NYC marathon, do you have any advice to share?!

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