Dopey Challenge – The Week Before

January 6, 2015 Faux Runner Comments 8 comments

This week is the BIG adventure! The Dopey Challenge starts in TWO days when I shall run a 5k on Wednesday, 10k on Thursday, Half Marathon on Saturday and Marathon on Sunday totaling 48.6 miles over 4 days! I am excited and nervous at the same time. But determined to have a fun time and be strong all throughout.

How does nervousness manifest itself?

I obsess over the training, or the ONE week that wasn’t as expected.

Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.36.37 PM — One of the training freakouts I posted about. I had plenty more on the privacy of my treadmill.

And then I obsess over the weather.

And I went ballistic over a raw mango that Mr. FauxTriathlete brought home ONE of when I asked him to bring “some raw mangoes”.

Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.44.43 PM — Thank heavens I only had a short 2 week taper (1.5 if you consider that Dopey starts on Thursday).

Then I worried over every little niggle and sniffle.

Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.46.57 PM — I can never tell if taper pains are real or phantom!

Finally I freaked out about packing everything and made color coded lists for each ziploc baggie!

Screen Shot 2015-01-06 at 2.49.11 PM — Micro-Lists are my way of dealing with the feeling of being overwhelmed.

But I’m not done with my freakouts yet! I keep remembering things that I need. Some small thing I may have missed about my costume (Just yesterday, I discovered that I didn’t have red compression socks and the vendor list at the expo only had super high end products that I didn’t want to spend $$$ on. Luckily, FusionSports USA came to my rescue with red sleeves!).
And things that I am not going to be able to do – making sure that the minions have someone to look after them incase Mr. FauxTriathlete comes home late. And all groceries done for the week. And just being a mom.

Whew!

It is certainly not easy being this Dopey!