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This is the last post before the marathon on Sunday (see the Sri Chinmoy site). Think of me while you’re lounging about in bed, or whatever it is you do on Sunday mornings. I gather there are a few people coming from the Ausrun/Coolrunning forums (fora??) so I may be able to put a few faces to names and blogs.

If you’re there, say hello. I’ll be wearing the same black singlet as the picture on my profile on the right, but black shorts.

I anticipate posting a race report on Monday, here and probably on Ausrun.

Pain in the English.com
I ran into a spot of bother before working out the plural of “forum”. The plural of “medium” is “media”, so shouldn’t the plural of forum be “fora”? I thought so, but didn’t want to run the risk of appearing a complete berk, so did a quick google.

The aforementioned googling led me to this site - Pain in the English.com - who’s subtitle is “because meaning is fundamentally indeterminate”. With an introduction like that, is it any wonder the people who post are a little, er, eccentric? They had a discussion about “Fora vs Forums”, which seems to have produced a lot of debate and disagreement, but nothing concrete.

Read it if you like, but the general gist seems to be “fora” is more correct, but you’ll sound like a wanker if you use it.

Running
A very easy toodle around the streets of Mooroolbark last night was the last thing even vaguely approaching a training run before the race. It was about 6k all up, but I was really just watching the clock; keeping it to around 30 minutes.

I tacked on a few strides at the end.

Again, it all felt good and positive, aside from a slight stitch from running too soon after dinner.

Dinner
Dinner last night was pasta. Tonight will be pasta. Tomorrow night will be, wait for it, pasta. I generally quite like pasta, but you can have too much of a good thing, I’m afraid. In retrospect, eating gnocchi on Tuesday night was perhaps a bit ill-advised. I’m hanging out for a steak.

Rest
Sleep is a bit of an issue at the moment. “a bit” is something of an understatement. Try “all-encompassing obsession”.

Looking back on it, pretty much my entire training for this marathon has been affected by lack of sleep. I wonder how much of an affect this will have on the day.

I don’t anticipate getting much sleep on Saturday night due to nerves, so the pressure is on to get a good rest tonight.

Right now: cross your fingers and keep-em crossed until about noon Sunday.