[rwest]

I have a running coach and he would have me run 1.5 miles at an easy pace along with some high knee running and a few 50-150 meter strides the day before.

You will want to eat high carb foods two days before the race. I cramp very easily, so I try to eat light and stop four hours before my race starts. I drink about 20-30 ounces of Gatorade and water in the hours up to the race and maybe some Swedish Fish candy, which I seem to be able to stomach.

Here’s the sucky part on race day- you really should do a 1.5 mile warm up easy run about 40 minutes before the race start and then a 1.5 mile easy cool down afterwards! Now if you are just treating it as a fun run and aren’t going to go hard, you can just run the first bit easy to warm up without getting an injury.

Good luck!