Post World Championship, 31 October

 31 October, 2022

It's hard to gather my thoughts and write about them post race, a natural self-blaming process started that I could stop before it went too far. Luckily.

Why did I blame myself? 

Because I didn't bring more warm layers for those two hours we had to stand around in the cold weather.

Why did I not bring some if I knew it was going to be cold?

Two reasons:
ONE I did not have too many warm layers since I was prepared for a weather of 28C/82F and had 2C/35F instead. 
TWO I did have some more things I could have put on but I was afraid of them getting lost. Seriously looking back it's crazy, I have no idea why I thought so. 

Why was that an issue? I think I was not in an ideal condition for the run. I was way too hungry despite eating a lot of food on the bike. 

Otherwise I did everything I could do before the race. Except for one more thing. Getting enough sleep. According to Garmin I slept 5h52min but I remember getting up to listen to some meditation at 9:45pm, which means I was still tossing and turning at around 10pm, and the alarm was set for 3:30am. 

Tough! All in all, more than one thing was not at all ideal to start a race at all. 

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