Countdown

Tomorrow is the day. I woke up and the minute I stepped out of bed I felt my neck snap and what felt like electricity run down my spine. I have the mother of all neck cricks. Damn it! Immediately I apply white flower, massage, take aleive, and call the chiropractors I know of. No one is working today. I go by Le Foot to drop in on their pt, he isn't working today. Oh my god, I can't turn my head. So basically from this point, I have to just do what I can for my neck and move on. I start the day by dropping off the dogs at camp bow wow, then we go back and pack up everything we will need for tomorrow. On the way I stop to buy fuel packets...the only ones available are GU brand so I just buy 2 Plain flavor and 2 Vanilla flavor. Different yes, but hopefully I have a stomach for it with my new nuun. I packed my regular bagel for breakfast in the morning and threw in a power bar to eat with it too. Triple checked my race gear, socks, shoe tag, tape for my feet, blah blah blah. I had a whole checklist. Nat and I had to check in to the hotel between 3 and 4, pasta party at 5:30, ice bath before bed and sleep by 9. That was the plan at least. The train was half an hour behind, so we didn't check in until after 4, we raced to the pasta party to be on time, only to wait by the door to be let in, eat pasta (I have had so much pasta over the last few days, I'm DONE with pasta!) and then wait for an entire hour while all the late people filed in and ate also, then heard some wonderful speakers. It didn't end unitl 8pm. I walked back to the hotel and filled my trash can up with ice and made myself sit in an ice bath for ten minutes. It took me almost three hours to fall asleep! Then, I kept waking up every hour. I don't even know what I was so nervous about at that point. All my stuff was set out, my neck was in pain but I had decided I would make it work, and was tucked in a super comfy bed with iced joints and a tummy full of pasta. I was literally counting sheep until I fell asleep. I kept reviewing my memory of the nike preview run, reminding myself I have done everything I need to be prepared, taking really deep calming breaths. I must have done every meditation exercise I know, but it worked and I was really calm the next morning.