Day 3,463—Race Tomorrow—

started to reorder my data fields in my watch, thinking I might want to update them for the race tomorrow. Yet, do I want my watch to make predictions that I will likely need to contradict to do well? I keep going back and forth on it. Part of me likes having some data during and all the data after but I don’t know how much I really need during. Instead, I need to think about pacing for blocks of time, eating and drinking, music, podcasts, and books. Last year, I spent most of the run listening to nothing, talking to people, and listening to music. I am tempted to not have a good time and be only focused on putting on a good show considering how I had one of my best performances ever last year, but I am doing my best to resist that urge and just show up and run tomorrow.

I looked down at first, seeing my HR at 111. I knew I was doing well but then I started to think about work and got into my head, and my heart rate was close to 160. It wasn’t really stressful things I was thinking about; it was mostly routine things that I am still processing, but there you go.