The Excitement Within

Last night I had concern about the early morning 5:30 a.m. alarm set by the wife when the race is 8 a.m. with a 7:30 a.m. late packet pick-up. Excited about the race but not too excited to wake-up at 5:30, my dog's "murphing" and "woofing" at 5:00 a.m. told me, "Let me out! The sun is up and so should you be!" I beat the alarm clock and now it is time to turn my attention to the race and hopefully come ahead of my age group pack or at least a majority of the them.

A light Continental breakfast consisting of orange juice, a bagel and coffees accompanied with newspapers I served to my appreciative wife who just turned-off the alarm clock announcement it was 5:30 a.m. Instead of listening to NPR's pund contest, which obviously one could only to for so long, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is my man! He knows everything about everything, at least health-wise. Jokingly regarding any matter that may arise such as a stalled car, we would turn to each other ask, "What would Dr. Sanjay Gupta do?"

It is 6:30 a.m. now and time to focus my nervous energy to a shower as I prefer to arrive at the line showered and ready to go. We only have a four minute drive to Soldiers Trail, my home court, where the race is taking place. My stomach is fine but I can feel the excitement growing within and actually 'excitement' gestates within the stomach. Soon, it won't contain itself and will birth, hopefully when they say, "Ready, Go!"