Has anyone got a weird A race ritual?

Training Advice/Discussion Marathon

1 month ago 03/23/2024 11:22am EDT

Always done this, not even joking.

1. Get out my signed Haile Gebresellaise photo from Gothenburg 1995, I wouldn't say pray to it, but hold it and channel the energy, try and channel the positivity and experience.

2. Put on my cross and Saint Christopher pendant. Cross for Jesus looking after my heart at MHR obviously, and no more stress fractures.

Saint Christopher as my whole life is a spiritual and physical journey. All of ours is.

3. Watch Great North run 2013 as drink turbo coffee. Channel Bekele. Channel his form.

4. Listen to banging techno/drum and bass.

Leave the house adrenalised, yet serene, having harnessed the best available energy from various sources.

1 month ago 03/23/2024 2:44pm EDT

re: Run4fun69 min 10 mile

Take 5 dumps over the course of 2 hours before the race

My real one is a game I play where I to try to guess the masters and female race winners based on how they look when warming up. It takes the edge off the pre-race jitters, for me.

In college, I would need to drink a cup of hot coffee 2-3 hrs before the race, because it has its maximum effect 2 hrs later. I started bringing a little drip coffee brewer to meets and the bus driver and other caffeine nuts and I would all set out to find an electrical outlet that we could use, often in the back of some random shed or outbuilding.

A funny post-race traditional/ritual would be to find a pretty girl from the host school and ask her if it was okay to take a shower at her dorm. I was too chicken to do this all except once. No one ever really got turned down unless the girl happened to live off campus.

1 month ago 03/23/2024 2:52pm EDT

re: Michael Scott Race for the Cure

The last two are funny as heck

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