The day before the half marathon includes picking up our race packets and bibs along with the big pre-race dinner at Breezes by the Bay on the waterfront in George Town. We picked up our race bags this morning at the Marriott and learned this will be the largest marathon in the history of the Cayman Islands with over 700 half marathoners alone. Like the triathlon we have a goal number and a shoot for number. We have both completed our training and feel like we are ready to pursue our personal goals of 2:45 for Katie and 3:15 for me with both of us shooting for 15 minutes better than our goal number as the shoot for time which would put Katie at two and a half hours and me right at three hours.
This evening we headed over to Breezes to "Carbo-load" the night before the race. We both had several different varieties of pasta with Arianna happy to help us finish each plate.
The marathon starts tomorrow at 5 a.m. Cayman time (Eastern US time right now) and we are getting up at 3:45 a.m. to eat breakfast and pick up Katie's running partner Kristy before heading to the start finish line on the water front. We will post tomorrow with the race story.
