lhermiston
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- Feb 6, 2013
Does anyone who has attended Marathon Weekend before, preferably doing more than one race, have any experience with staying out late the night before a race?
I've attended many Marathon Weekends and so far I've been diligent about getting to bed nice and early, but there's some after hours events happening during marathon weekend this year and I'm trying to decide if disrupting my sleep schedule is worth it and how much of an impact on my running it will have. Has anyone here run with little to no sleep during the weekend before?
I think it depends on how you define “worth it.” For Dopey 2019, I stayed out past dark before the 5K, 10K and full. The night before the full, my daughters and I probably got back around 11 and I was up by 3 Sunday morning. It was “worth it” to me because I don’t want to miss fireworks and it was my first opportunity to show my girls how fun MK is later at night.
That said, while I didn’t go to bed early before the half (10ish) I did go back to the hotel early (6ish) because it was evident I was burning the candle at both ends and it might not be sustainable. During the full, I ran what I considered to be a great race until I hit the wall at mile 18. That could’ve been from staying out the night before, cumulative fatigue or the heat. I still had my second fastest full.
All that said, I’d do it pretty much exactly the same (maybe no nachos the night before the half). I didn’t want to sacrifice park time for running time.