Radical pre-marathon diet...Opening Day at Fenway

So I have been completely thrown off my game with less than a week to go before Marathon :-0

Monday...went out to lunch with team from work yesterday and celebrated a colleague's birthday with a BBQ burger at Friendly's (broccoli, no fries, so I could live with myself)...and then today at the office, we celebrated Opening Day at Fenway with hot dogs, popcorn, and a fire drill, thanks to the popcorn maker under the smoke/heat detector (it's funny b/c the landlord waived the fine!). I 'chased' the 2 hot dogs down with too many handfuls of peanuts and some Twizzlers over the course of the game which we had 'livecast' with a Jimmy Fund fundraiser at the office...yes, I DO work at a "Best Place" to work, after all!

I share this all with you b/c, well, I pride myself on being somewhat of a 'nontraditional' runner, so I wanted to provide an insider's view to both my rigorous training and my ridiculously human lapses in judgement. :-)

I'm guessing that you won't hear about the Kenyans' new training regimen of burgers, dogs, licorice, and peanuts anytime soon, and that's fine with me; let them win the race. I'll take the 'warm fuzzies' of a 14-3 Sox victory and the 5 billion extra calories and channel that energy in just 6 short days. (either that or I'll hurl tomorrow at dawn somewhere out on a local street...will keep you posted either way)