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Saturday, May 06, 2000 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Cheryl Collins Gatons ran the Pittsburgh Marathon three times, finishing second in 1996 and 1999. Collins Gatons is in semiretirement and is serving as the Post-Gazette's race expert this week, discussing everything you wanted to know about running marathons.
Today's question: What do you worry about the night before the marathon?
"You worry about being regular and getting up on time. You have your alarm and you have someone special to wake you up. My coach, Joe Sarver, would always make sure I was up. For the last one it was my husband. I might have other friends call. We would be like, 'You call me at this time, I'll call you at this time.'
"You have other little things you do like having your uniform laid out and ready to go. You hope the little aches you're having in the days and weeks leading up to the race are just mental aches the day of the race. You're nervous and excited. You worry about all those things.
"But getting your system going is the big one, just because you do want to get up, eat and do the things you have to do. You always have dreams before races, too, that you'll miss the start. That the gun will go off and you'll still be in the Porta-john or tying your shoes.
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