last ride before the 42!!
Enjoyed catching up with 4 others who are doing the Perth 42.2 tomorrow, at an italian restuarant..the food was pretty good, and the 3 hours we spent discussing various marathon related things was a lot of fun, and very interesting..I will be looking out for N (racing) and D (spectating) tomorrow also...
Put my drinks in this afternoon, and I am hoping my drinks strategy this time is superior to the last two years...sounds like it is going to be hard work pushing into the usual Northeasterly wind on the way back to the finish line, and a lot of humidity/precipitation in the early stages...
Getting distinctly nervous today..which is a good thing in that it means I am taking it seriously...but its partly cos I wonder as per usual if I am well prepared...Can't confidently say yes...but the signs from sessions in recent months are that a 3.20 to 4.20 is possible..which means I wont be disappointed with a PB (i.e. 3.20 to 3.55), even though my main target is still the 3hrs 30 minutes..reserve targets are 3.40,3.50,3.55,4.00,4.20,4.40....here goes.....nothing ventured nothing gained...
today I listened to an old instruMETAL compilation music tape (yes the old cassette tapes of the 1980's that were the big thing before CD's came on the scene and were the mod con after the records started to get out of date in the early 80's...my sister has an i-pod,but I am yet to be dragged into that yet...mind you I was pretty slow to bother getting a cellphone/mobile too..only been usin that since last year...but I have been running my website since 1996...)of mine
enjoying tracks like Lanny Cordolas echo boy,Shout;Moonlight Sonata Whitecross Hammer & Nail & Flashpoint, scaterd fews look into my side, Fourth Estate; Reflections, Tourniquet;somnambulism,whitewashed tomb,swarming spirits (STB;1992), Prodigal Sons,some of my old drummer mate(Richard R.)'s music;Steve Morse,Tommy Emmanuels Journey,Villa Anita,Angelica:Harvest & Bumble Bee groove,David Zaffiro;Blue ice...lots of late 80's early 90's stuff...I'm feeling very reflective and also rather psyched up..could be a good race this one, or it could be a debacle..not too sure yet...but I intend going out there with all guns blazing....
tonight I intend watching some of Freos game versus the sydney swines and maybe my Perth marathon video from 2004,which I have finally managed to dig up from the boxes at Gozzy..
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