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by Kat

Tomorrow is the 2006 Portland Marathon. We're going to do what we set out to do. We've been told that all our hard work is about to pay off.

But the honest and somewhat startling truth is that I don't really feel like I've done any serious training. I just followed a regimen set in front of me and went the distance I was supposed to. Looking back, I know it was tough but now I feel more or less like shrugging it off. I know I ran some crazy long miles and somehow they're supposed to help me, but they feel so long ago. (It's probably because I've been sitting around recovering for 3 weeks after the 21-miler.) The thing is, I KNOW I can run this marathon... I have very little doubt that it will be just another LONG (yet more entertaining) day of running.

I just feel... unprepared.

I'm somewhat at a loss for how to explain my exact feelings about the event. I don't really have a sense of trepidation; I'm excited. I feel like I'm about to do something crazy, not something I've been preparing for the last several months. And I feel like my love of doing abso-fucking-lutely crazy things is what's going to get me through.

But damn, legs, I'm counting on you.

NOTE: Rachel writes in her blog:

The Portland Marathon organizers have teamed up with www.wigglewireless.com to provide race chip and cell phone text messaging integration for race spectators. What that means is that you can get six updates throughout the race of any participants whereabouts on the course. Flippin’ sweet. If you have text messaging on your cell phone plan and you would like six updates on my whereabouts as I cross certain points along the course, you can sign up on wigglewireless and stalk my path of running insanity via SMS technology.

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