Friday Five: Race Day

Every Friday, three DC area bloggers Mary at Mar On the Run, Cynthia at You Signed Up For What?! and Courtney from Eat Pray Run, DC to host the Friday Five linkup. Anyone can join with their own Friday Five post (yes, it must be a Friday Five!!) They encourage you to visit other blogs on the linkup, comment, share and engage!

This week, the theme is Race Day.

If you are a runner, who doesn’t love “race day.”

Here are 5 important things in my race day:

1. Have a good breakfast

For me, it’s oatmeal or cream of wheat with flax or raisins added in.

2. Get dressed in a cute but comfortable outfit.

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Yes, I am matchy matchy but I try to wear clothes that I’ve worn before so I know they will be comfortable.

3. Bring all the extra stuff you need

Fuel for before and during.

My Garmin, my iPhone, my RoadID, my belt for attaching my bib…

Change of clothes for after.

4.Get to the race early.

So you can find parking, get your race packet, use the restrooms and meet up with friends. And then relax (Is that possible?)

5.Cross that finish line and smile.

Be proud of your accomplishment even if it wasn’t a PR. You finished a race!!

Happy Running! What important things go on on your race day?

11 thoughts on “Friday Five: Race Day”

I love all your running clothes, I need the heart socks.
A great list, I always forget to take a dry shirt with mwah!
I need to have more race days in my life 🙂

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Darlene | May 1, 2015 at 12:21 pm

They’re from runningskirts.com

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I love your last one, cross that finish line and smile. Perfect way to end a race! I can’t wait for next weekend when my daughter and I race in Disneyland again.

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Darlene | May 1, 2015 at 12:22 pm

That should be so much fun. You are so lucky to have a daughter to run with (and a sister too)

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I love that outfit, Darlene; you always look SO cute on race day! Have a great weekend!

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Darlene | May 1, 2015 at 12:22 pm

Thanks

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Having all my gadgets around is so important. Garmin, Ipod, etc. The one race I remembered my Ipod but forgot my headphones. Luckily it was only an 11k. I now know to double check everything!

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I do all the same things, except I don’t always change clothes after since I’m usually pretty close to home. If anyone is riding with me, we just stink together. LOL.

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