Dubai 2014 M Day-1

Early start (story of my life?…) with a landing at 6:45am. Lots of walking to get to the passport control with no queue there, but 30+ minutes wait for the luggage. Used to the city now I took the metro to the Mall of Emirates where my hotel was close by. Never been in this mall so lost my way several times and was close to tears until I found my way out. More work to find the hotel and to hear my room would be ready earliest at noon 😦 Cleared myself a bit in the ladies room and left to pick up min bib (#1078) after an hour of rest reading/surfing in the lobby. Bad calculation to keep jeans, long sleeves and jacket on. If the weather is similar on Friday, it will be dangerously hot. Saw the preparations for the arrival and got to the Madinat Jumeira. Once again, pretty empty. Got my bib, my tshirt and bag and just aimed back home. No fair is a bit boring I think for an event qualified of this level. No need for London or NY fair, but a little one could be fun. 3km from hotel to start – perfect warm-up!

As I had to wait for my room, I walked a bit in the mall and bought some food. Will definitely return to Carrefour after the race!

A lot of fun to look at Ski Dubai, a ski place inside the mall…

Got my room finally and was not disappointed 🙂

After eating my portion of pasta with tomato sauce, buying band aid for my newly-arrived blisters 😦 and arrived back to my room, visited the top floor with view and pool 😀 Slept there approx.3*30minutes and then back to the room.

As my stomach feels a bit odd still, decided to skip pasta or else and go for oat-porridge done in the oven. Extra banana, berries and nuts

Ok, pretty tired now and typing all this with one finger on a mobile is not the funniest… Thought today when starting to fall asleep under the sun… What do elite runners do at M Day-2&1? I think I have reflected about this prior to another race ( probably Dubai last year actually…). But I bet they are not sun bathing (daaaa!) not walking around in a mall. Pretty sure someone is picking up their bib as well…

Time for some rest now . Not too late, but as good to rest now… Two alternative outfit for the race already wait on the table. For tomorrow, will take the one I won’t race in 😉

Dubai – not much more over a day to go now…