*cue "The Final Countdown" music*

LOL. That's what's playing in my head right now — I forget who sang it but it's this cheesy 80's rock anthem and the only words I know from it are "the final countdown" followed by some really "gnarly" synth sounds.

Anyway, as my title suggests, I have about 10 hours to go until the race. 8 or 7 of those hours, I hope, are spent sleeping! I definitely need my rest since I'll practically be running for nearly 6 hours. Well, this year, my goal (albeit I didn't really train) is to finish the marathon in under 6 hours; 5 hours 30 minutes to be exact! I know it's a long shot but if I can try to motivate myself during the race with some sort of time, I might actually make it. It's not like I'm going to kill myself trying to finish at that exact time, though… LOL, I guess I should just tell myself that my goal is to finish between 5:30 to 6h…

So, I've probably mentioned this before but I'll be bringing my mobile with me in case I get bored and (lol) start texting/bothering Sheryl or maybe my sis or just some random people reading my tweets. Oh, did I mention that I'll be wearing my day-glo Chelsea shirt? LMAO. I'm going to blind the other runners around me.

G'night!

Twitter is currently being sucky right now by posting an "Over capacity" message and preventing me from tweeting. Bastages! Oi, Twitter — just let yourselves be bought by Google so you can have faster and larger servers. >_<

Anyway, am typing using my sis #2's pink computer in her beach house. Tomorroz, we go to the marathon expo to pick up our bib and running chip… Then later that evening (well, is 5:30PM evening?!), our pasta supper and then lights out at 8 or 9PM. Eep. Good thing sis # 1 will be dropping us off at the starting line on Sunday — around 5:00AM! LMAO! Am hoping that I won't be too nervous by that time. From now until the gun goes off, I'll be reminding myself to go slow during the first 6 miles. ^_^

Oh, do pray for great (i.e., cloudy) weather, please! Thanks.

Today (Friday) is (according to my freebie calendar) "Memorial Day Traditional"; so yah, Happy Traditional Memorial Day, everyone!

In about 3 days (including this one), I'm going to run my fourth marathon; my third one in San Diego. EEP. Sadly, I haven't run since the 10th (my 20-miler) so I'm really really worried about Sunday. I guess, as long as I don't go out too fast in the first 10 miles, I should be ok, right? I mean, that's always been my problem (well, for the past year anyway). Other than inadequate training, I run too fast at the starting line instead of pacing myself. I guess it's the excitement and all that. But not this Sunday. I think I'm gonna have to remind myself to take it easy. AHHHH….

Anyway, if you care, I'm going to take my mobile phone with me and will tweet during the marathon Well, starting at the 10th mile, anyway. I don't think my mobile's battery is going to last that long! LOL.

Wish me luck!

It's waaaaay too hot right now. Like, probably 80

I want to choke the developer/s who created the Nike+ for iPod and while we're at it, the iTunes developers, too.

I had to restore my iPod back to original factory settings cos iTunes couldn't read it. Naturally, the data stored about my 20-mile run this morning was deleted, as well. Loverly. You'd think they'd store that stuff on a separate partition or summat. *sigh*

Luckily, I hand-copied my run info for posterity but now I can't update it on Nike+ — and I cannot update the challenge I created, either. PAH!

Oh, it's partly my fault this happened. I realised I hadn't had a backup of my songs on my laptop so I decided to use YamiPod to transfer all the songs. Big mistake. Nano 3rd gen doesn't like 3rd party software on the iPod. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. What was I thinking. >_<

Congrats to my sis who met the 20 on the 10th challenge. FSCKING iPod! I'm not running another 20 miles tomorrow just to get it updated on Nike+! LMAO!

"If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal."
- Rob de Castella

I thought of sharing the quote above cos it kinda made me chuckle but at the same time, reminded me of my 20-mile run this weekend! AHHHHHH.