Do this one thing.  Run.  Run the month before, the day before, the hour before.  Just run.  There’s no reason not to run.  You’ve signed up for a race, the least you can do is run.

I was driving to a race on Sunday and it was unseasonably cold – with 30 mph winds and temps in the 30s.  Certainly not a reason to be walking around in shorts.  But that’s all I saw.  Runners everywhere – and all of them shivering!  What the…

Hours before this 10k, and here are hundreds of smart people doing a very silly thing!

There’s no way a runner can race properly when they are shivering.  It’s just not possible.  So next time you decide to run a race, please, wear warm clothes.  Do a warm up in those warm clothes, even if it’s a 10 minute jog.  And then keep moving up until the gun goes off.  You want to be sweating before a race, not shivering.  That’s how you run a fast time.