In case you care to follow along, that’s my number in the marathon on Sunday. I don’t think they have a cool runner tracker like the New York City Marathon does (which of course allowed us to track P. Diddy as he ran last year). I’ve set up email and text message alerts to family, which ought to give some idea of how I’m doing as it goes along.

I’m feeling well-rested and confident this week, as opposed to the out-of-touch and paranoid I was feeling last week. I’m in full-on eating mode these days, trying to stock up on carbs like pasta, potatoes, bread, and the like in the days before the race. Yesterday, I ate at The Wrap and The Cosmic Caf?; today was Dolphin Seafood and El Pel?n Taqueria. We leave tomorrow evening for Chicago, and have two days to hang out and try to avoid getting too worked up before race day.