The great Carb up.

Three days to go now, so I must begin the great Carb up. After a healthy breakfast of grapefruit, followed by poached egg whites on one piece of brown toast, I prepared the first of many bowls of Spaghetti pasta. There will be Spaghetti with sweet corn & Tuna, spaghetti with Chicken & tomatoes, Spaghetti with rout vegetables, Carrots, Swede, Parsnips and Potatoes. I will still be maintaining a high portion of fruit and I will be decreasing the amount of fibre in my diet. I’m starting to get little nervous palpitations from time to time now. Usually when I either look at the sea or the calendar. A couple of deep breaths and I’m fine. Transition is going over and over in my mind at the moment, have I got everything, can I make it any simpler, what if this happens, what if that happens. I’m not being paranoid I just need to make sure that every eventuality is covered. There are some things that I can’t plan for until after the race registration and briefing on Friday, and that is really frustrating, I have an issue with my race belt. As it is now, my race belt is loaded with gels, ready for the marathon. I have even devised a way of carrying plasters on the belt. What I need to know is, do we get two race numbers, one for the bike leg and one for the run, or just one. If two then great. Ill simply pin one to the back of my cycling jersey ( I’m not wearing a Tri suit) and leave my race belt as it is. If we only have one number, then I have a problem. I don’t want to carry half a dozen gels in my belt on the bike leg and yet come the start of the run, I’ll never get those gels into the elastic holders. The only plan I have for this at the moment is, use a second race belt for the bike. The number will be fixed to this ready to go in transition one. After the ride in transition two I will take the number off the first belt and put it on the run belt already loaded with gels. This will be fiddly but a lot easier than trying to slot gels into the belt. My biggest worry about this is, what I forget to swap the numbers over and simply change the belt. How far would I have to run back to get my number, how stupid would I look. The safest thing would probably be to ware both belts for the run. I don’t know, so much to think about, roll on Friday.