Ready for Anything

This is the final week for the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon and ½ Marathon.

I always found this week to be somewhat strange, in that you’ve trained for everything imaginable on the course but nothing about how to handle this week.

This is the week when you run just to remind your legs of what they’re suppose to do.

You don’t want to run hard or run long.

You don’t want to run in the rain. You don’t want to run in the dark and risk a twisted ankle.

You stay away from any small children that might be the epicenter of anything contagious.

If you belong to a team involved in any type of competitive sport, you bow out of this week’s competition for fear of getting injured.

This is the week when you go through all of the mental preparation for your event.

You check the weather forecast on a daily basis, hoping that the predicted rain holds off.

You eat pasta for dinner for the entire week, thinking this will really help.

You drink water as if you were a camel and can store it.

You’ve memorized the course, you’ve even run the last 10k!

You have your split times written down and laminated, you even have a little fluff time in there.

You’re as ready as you’re going to be, then………