{"id":86,"date":"2007-10-10T04:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-08-05T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T13:03:42","slug":"last-minute-marathon-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/last-minute-marathon-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute Marathon Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we saw the launch of the fall marathon season with the hot and humid Chicago Marathon.  Prior to the event Chicago Athlete&#8217;s weekly newsletter included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoaa.com\/features\/oct06lastminute.html\">12 tips for a successful marathon<\/a>. I think the experience at Chicago makes these very timely, for any race.<\/p>\n<p>It included the obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No Big Changes &#8211; do everything the way you have done it <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/images\/26milemark.jpg?resize=138%2C138&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" align=\"right\" \/>through all your training<\/li>\n<li>Drink up &#8211;  stay hydrated all weekend long<\/li>\n<li>Expedite the Expo &#8211; stay relaxed and off your feet, get to the Expo before everyone else!<\/li>\n<li>Start slow &#8211; don&#8217;t go out too hard due to all the excitement and hype!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some not so obvious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dress Rehearsal &#8211; jog the last few miles<\/li>\n<li>Chow in the Afternoon &#8211; Eat your main pre-race meal in the mid-afternoon instead of the at night.<\/li>\n<li>Pick a meetup spot &#8211; pick some place to meetup, and if they have signs using the alphabet, use your own last name not Z or Q<\/li>\n<li>Get Moving Again &#8211; walk or jog the day after to get some of the kinks out!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full list at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagoaa.com\/features\/oct06lastminute.html\">Chicago Athlete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bbce646d-be1f-46da-b5df-5f9e991be539\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Marathon\">Marathon<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Tips\">Tips<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Race%20Day\">Race Day<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/93f48bb6-6a52-44e1-8c95-b3f74418d290\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=625\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we saw the launch of the fall marathon season with the hot and humid Chicago Marathon. Prior to the event Chicago Athlete&#8217;s weekly newsletter included 12 tips for a successful marathon. I think the experience at Chicago makes these very timely, for any race. It included the obvious: No Big Changes &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,14,73],"tags":[89,679,62],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","category-marathon","category-rci","tag-chicago-marathon","tag-marathon","tag-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":713,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/october-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":86,"position":0},"title":"October Highlights","author":"crossn81","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This really should be titled \"Marathon Highlights\" since most of the month this year and last was talking about marathons!\u00a0 Did I talk too much about it this year? 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