Well, I haven’t read this anywhere, but my marathon pre-training strategy has been the following:

• Do absolutely no running the week before the training starts
• Eat too much, mostly the “wrong” stuff (don’t worry, it’s all part of my strategy)
• Eat one (ok, slightly more than one) pint of Graeter’s Ice Cream

For those of you who haven’t tried Graeter’s, the short story is this: I found a link to their website with a bunch of raves on somebody’s blog, went to their website, read how they make their ice cream, and ordered 6 pints to try them out (you can only order 6 pints or 12 pints because of the way they ship it). I received the 6 pints frozen solid at my door on the scheduled delivery day and almost immediately got my hands into the Black Raspberry Chip. The chips are more like bark, and are as big as the container itself. To avoid having my 2 year old daughter see my scooping the ice cream right out of the container, I went into the bathroom and locked the door.

Graeter’s is, hands-down, the best ice cream I’ve ever had.

Let the marathon training begin on Monday, 16. July, 2007.