How are you surviving with that daylight savings time change?? Makes it a little extra hard to get up and run those miles, am I right? Hopefully you had your long run yesterday so this morning was a “sleep in” day for you 🙂
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Glass City Marathon is rapidly approaching!! 6 more weeks to go. Now is the time to get those travel details arranged if you heading in from out of town. We are pleased to announce that the host hotel for the GCM the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center, located on Secor Road. This hotel is 5-10 minutes from campus depending on traffic and it has easy access from I-75, I-475 and U.S. Route 23. For other lodging options, take a look at the other hotels that are available in the University of Toledo area. Race day is at UT, so try to get close to it!
While you’re in town for the race, you’ll also want to see some of the sights Toledo has to offer. I’ve gotta say, there’s a lot to do for families around this town! Here is a list of some of our favorites:
- Metroparks of Toledo Area (we went there!)
- The Toledo Zoo (we went there!)
- The Toledo Museum of Art (we went there!)
- Imagination Station (we went there!)
But maybe you just want to chill, get a full belly of pasta, and relax at your hotel? That’s cool too. Take a look at the list of restaurants offering GCM discounts…. you cannot go wrong with these choices! You’ll need your race shirt or medal to get the discount, so don’t be afraid to wear that new bling post race!!
Whatever you do, make sure you rest up, eat well, hydrate properly, and just chill out before the race. Race day will be here soon!!!
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Q: What is your favorite pre-race dinner?
Q: Ever had a bad race hotel?
One time in Columbus OH, we stayed at a place that had not one, but THREE, train tracks running on all sides of it. After one train stopped, another went by!! Combine that with two kids under 3 yrs old in our hotel room, it was a very sleepless night! Since that time we’ve learned to check out the hotel location on Google Maps aerial view and avoid train tracks!
Pre-race dinner: grilled chicken or steak, sweet potato, and asparagus 🙂
Past 2 days prior
Worse hotel…. paper thin walls in jax florida…. I was awaken at 11pm by drunk college kids talking loudly and laughing …. went on for a couple hours and finally they went to sleep. I got up at 4:30 for race…. was tempted to make a bunch of noise and wake them up, but I didn’t …… however, by 5am, one was up puking his guts out…. I thought, yeah for Karma 🙂 lol
But the funny part – “hey, it’s 11pm, what are you people doing awake!?!” That is an interesting pre-race dinner! Asparagus is a food that does not make it’s way to our plates here.
Daylight savings meant this morning’s 20 miler was rough getting up to run! 6:00am alarm felt like 5:00am but luckily there were 4 other guys running so I didn’t want to be the one that didn’t show up.
And that hotel spot in Columbus was *horrible*! In addition to the trains, I think it was directly under the airport path as well. That was also the night that we couldn’t find any place for dinner that didn’t have horrible wait times so we ate pizza in our room.
That sure was one memorable night for sure!!! Glad I wasn’t the one running the next day. I would have been a mess!
Pasta is also my favorite pre-race dinner. Last time I went to my favorite local Italian restaurant and had pasta with tomato sauce, tune and olives. That was so good!!
In addition to a big pasta dinner, I’m also a fan of eating a few treats like some Oreos. Figure it will give me some extra fuel for later!! 🙂
I just like to stay in hotels that are relatively close to the finish line. After running the Houston marathon, which was freezing and raining, we had to walk 2 miles back to the hotel- that was rough! I usually stick with pasta as my pre-race meal.
That was a great thing about our hotel in Boston, after the cold rainy race, we only had to walk less than a mile… but it sure seemed a lot farther!!!