Congrats SkinnyScientist!  You can do this!  With 9miles under your belt I'm sure you can get the other 4 miles out too, just make sure to trust in yourself.  You should be so proud of yourself for all you have accomplished and all you're going to accomplish!  Job well done!  I'll be rooting for you come Nov. Please keep us posted! :)

Melissa

Thank you for the encouragement and well wishes!

Congratulations!  Good luck with your training.  

P.S.  I am thinking of taking on a 10K one of these days...

If you have 9 down, 13 is a walk in the park.  I think with race day excitement and all the other runners, you will push yourself to victory.  When I tried to do a week long bicycle ride of 60-80 miles per day on Atkins a few years back, I had to eat carbs midway thru the day when I started to get weak.   A protein/carb mix might help. I was using a protein shake that had carbs to fuel.

Yay, good for you! It has been my dream since I was 15 years old to run the Boston Marathon. I'm 26 years behind, but I think it's starting to look more feasible... by the time I am 50, anyway :)

DO IT!  Start working on your dream NOW!

Ok, you inspired me. It's not the Boston Marathon, but this morning I signed up for my first 5K in over 5 years. It's October 10th :) Baby steps!

You go girl!! You are unstoppable!!

Hi Skinny,

    Congrats, well I haven't run since my WLS 10 weeks ago but I do have 2 marathons, several half-marathons, adventure races and triathons, a million tough hikes and mountain bike rides under my belt. (yes this was all pre-surgery)  but I am a PCOS girl so you know how hard it is to lose weight with PCOS.  Anyway  to echo what some people have said and to add a little:  You should have more carbohydrates the day before and lots of fluids.  The day of the race do the breakfast that worked for you with the 9 miles.  During the race you may be fine with no energy stuff, but I always carried like a few starbursts or jolly ranchers as a little sugar kick if I needed it.  I don't know how I would react to those two things now. Thinking about post WLS I would probably bring my "Women's Alive chewable vitamins."  They taste great and give you just enough of a sugar like kick that could help. The other thing that tastes pretty good are shot blocks by cliff bar, I got them at REI.  Someone else mentioned this but definitely experiment during your long runs during training with what works for you so there are no surprises on race day.  Drink water at EVERY water stop.  If you are going to try gatoraide make sure you bring your own version you like.  Most races will have something at the water stops but it might be blue poweraide that you hate the taste of or you have a bad reaction to.  Or if you don't want to carry it, have your significant other standing somewhere on the route where he can hand you some of your own stash.

You can totally do it, just keep running/training.  When I was training for my first marathon, the coach described training as putting money in the bank, each run you do deposits money in the bank, and on race day you are going to make a big withdrawal, if you did your training there will be enough money in the bank and the race will go smoothly.

I once had a friend sign up for a half marathon, about a week before it she said she hadn't trained and asked me to power walk it with her, I had not been training at all and I had just found out I was 6 weeks pregnant and I still power walked the race with her and had a great time.  

Best of luck- it will be awesome!

THANK YOU FOR THIS. I keep jolly ranchers in my stash for when I get "low" at work from the METFORMIN.

They work great...they are light. This is perfect.

This is going to sound terrible but what is usually in my water bottle is....cherry pomegrante flavored crystal light.

I am not worried about time (they close the course at 4 hours).  I know I am not fast. I just want to finish..and finish strong. 

Also..thanks for the money in the bank talk. Specifically, it is end of quarter here and running has fallen away to figure skating and the gym (intense work outs) has fallen away to walks due to getting my quotas in.

I will make a point of getting more long and intermediate runs in.