Zimmy's Road to the Boston Marathon: 5 days to go

This guy has the right idea.....

Well maybe not...but not as unacceptable as you'd think

Last night was the last Track Tuesday before the race and I felt great. All rational thought said to take it easy. Andy and Jill kept screaming at me with every lap "DON'T DO ANYTHING STUPID" but I ran a solid workout, for 400m/800m/400m 3X. It's Andy's favourite and I like it a lot. People were finally back at track making it a much less lonely final workout before the marathon.

But this post isn't directly about running but instead it is about how important your gastrointestinal tract is come race day. Why today am I talking about this finally with the long await poop post? Well mostly because sometime between last night's workout and this morning, my GI tract decided to abandon ship. Let's hope it was some kind of food poisoning that is on its way out. Needless to say let's hope this doesn't happen again in the next few days leading up.

So many of you tuned in to my post with the photo of the runner who literally shat himself during a HALF-MARATHON and continued to run with shit in shorts and pasted on his skin. Amazingly, he went on to finish 21st in that race. When asked why he didn't stop, despite cramps from KM 2-12 and shitting himself, he said, "If you quit once, it's easy to do it again and again and again. It becomes a habit."

Some runners will stop at nothing in a marathon, as evidence by that photo but myself and the majority of runners try to take a more proactive approach in cleansing the system pre-race so that egregious and unfortunate accidents don't happen during the challenge we have worked so hard to train for. So as much as Shirley will be embarrassed by this post, making sure you flushed the pipes (not in the Something about Mary way.....) is probably the most critical thing come marathon morning. There is a reason every race has many, many port-potties right near the start - so you can make sure you get out every last nugget.

So what's my marathon day morning ritual? Without going into details, let's just say like it comes like all good things....because...you never want this sign to be right...