Overload

The excitement is building for the marathon. The banners are up in NYC (so I see from the pictures online). Everyone is in their taper. There's tweets and retweets and FB posts galore. There's lots of articles on course strategy, like this cool interactive one from asics and this article on the NYC marathon site. I started reading A Race Like No Other on the plane.

And then, of course, there is this.

I'm officially on overload.

I love all these articles and comments. A Race Like No Other has given me the chills twice and I'm only on page 38. But I think I'm going to wait until after the race to finish it. I'm going to stop reading it for now. There's nothing I'm going to be able to improve in my training in these last 18 days. The course is what it is. It's challening, no amount of reading is going to make the hills and the bridges any less challenging. And the more I read, the more freaked out I get. So I'm putting a moratorium on marathon course-related stuff.

For now, I'm just going to focus on getting in my run tomorrow. The hotel gym is horrifying. It's a gorgeous facility with tons of equipment but it's all glass enclosed in the main lobby so everyone walking by can see in. Fantastic. I hate hotel gyms anyway, this is just perfect. So I will put the struggle of how hard the marathon course will be out of my head and replace it with the struggle of how awkward I'm going to feel on the treadmill with the entire Hilton watching me. It's always something!