{"id":731,"date":"2011-05-29T04:07:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T04:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2012-08-31T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:23:00","slug":"what-to-pack-on-race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"What To Pack On Race Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-732\" title=\"Pre Marathon 01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-01-475x600.jpg\" alt=\"Pre Marathon 01\" width=\"475\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-01-475x600.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-01.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey there folks! I\u2019m about to go to bed and get my pre-marathon rest, so I have to make this post short. I\u2019m in an odd state of shock that I\u2019m running a marathon tomorrow. I am SO excited, but I don\u2019t <!--more-->really feel prepared. With being away from home all week I just haven\u2019t been sleeping well, eating the same foods, I know I haven\u2019t drank enough water, and my knee is being all weird. But whatever. I can do it. I will do it. The end.<\/p>\n<p>So what am I bringing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water bottle for before and after\u2026but don\u2019t drink too much right before the race or you will be stopping at those attractive porta potties.<\/li>\n<li>Vaseline. Tres imporante. Without it, I get horrible blisters. With it, I don\u2019t usually get them, except maybe on loooong runs. It helps so much.<\/li>\n<li>Race day outfit. Make sure make it weather appropriate\u2026if it\u2019s cold out, you\u2019ll wish that you brought your long sleeved race shirt or zip up. A lot of people bring old sweatshirts to wear to keep warm right before the race. Once they are warmed up, they throw it off. Sometimes those clothes are donated to charity. See if that\u2019s an option for your race.<\/li>\n<li>Headband. I hate drippy, wet hair in my face. Not nice.<\/li>\n<li>Spare shoelaces. I\u2019m not bringing these because I know my laces are nice and new, but I think it\u2019s a great idea. The horror of having your laces snap right before a run would be\u2026nasty.<\/li>\n<li>I-pod and ear buds (if you are listening to music) *make sure to have your playlist ready<\/li>\n<li>Sports gels or gummies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was so fun going to the expo today\u2026loved all the free samples, what little they had. We ended up getting there when they were wrapping things up, so next time I run a race\u2026hopefully I can try to be a bit more punctual. It was a long trip from my brother\u2019s place, so we had lunch on the go. (top picture\u2026I love, love, love Booster Juice) Not sure how much nutrition is in the \u201cMean Mocha\u201d but it made my taste buds happy.<\/p>\n<p>Me and three of my sibs at the expo. Yes, I embarrassed them and made them pose in a picture. Forced them, in fact. They still looked happy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-733\" title=\"Pre Marathon 02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-02-510x328.jpg\" alt=\"Pre Marathon 02\" width=\"510\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-02-510x328.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-02-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pre-Marathon-02.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>On race day, what do you bring? Or what did you wish you brought or used on race day?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well\u2026I\u2019m off to hit the sack. Hopefully I don\u2019t get all these pre-race jitters and not sleep. Wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there folks! I\u2019m about to go to bed and get my pre-marathon rest, so I have to make this post short. I\u2019m in an odd state of shock that I\u2019m running a marathon tomorrow. I am SO excited, but I don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[184,185,183,1623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}