My big run is next Friday. It’s in Lethbridge, so I’ve come down to my parent’s place for a vacation before the race. I won’t have as far to drive on Thursday.
This has been stressful. I was worried about the race, until I heard descriptions of it, then I felt more confident. I’m back to being worried. So much can go wrong.
I bought new trail runner shoes a week and a half ago, thinking I could break them in. I probably could, but I’ve noticed that since I’ve been using them, my ankle has been hurting. And I think it is squashing my little toe. This is not the kind of shoe I want on my feet for 53km. I’ve stopped trying to break them in. My ankle has since gotten better, due to the run-it-off method of medicine.
Is that quad muscle injury acting up again? Hard to be sure. I need to take it easy.
Have I been running enough to maintain myself? The problem there is that after the Death Race I didn’t run much for recovery. Now I’m in the tapering part before the next run. I haven’t had a really long run since the Death Race.
I’ve been trying to find good compression shorts. I’ve been unable to find an “affordable” pair in Edmonton and was forced to make a stop in Calgary to pick some up.
I’m also on the Atkins part of carb-loading. No carbohydrates for three days. I had planned to eat a lot of chicken wings for lunch, but the place that had said they would not be breaded this week, lied. So I had two chicken breasts wrapped in lettuce. And after the drive down, the only place I could find to eat was a Subway. However, they had no decent nutrition information. I had to go online with my iPhone in the parking lot to figure out what I could order. This would have been so much easier when the Atkins diet still had credibility. I found it surprising that the wraps had more carbs than most of the breads. That is counter-intuitive.