Yay Kat! Your weather should be cooling off, eh? You'll nail this.

Just in time for "nothing new on race day," the NYT decides to print this piece about a study where mid-pack marathoners who ate a gel every 20 minutes ran considerably faster than the control group.

But, it's not a goal race, and I'd planned to experiment with nutrition anyway, in a way I really can't on training runs. My plan was to take at least some Gatorade from the aid stations - not my habit, since I don't train with Gatorade, both because it wreaks havoc on my gut the next day and because I don't want to clean it out of my hydration pack. But I was just so nauseous at Boston that I couldn't even take the gels I'd planned, and I know that hurt me in the end, so I did want to try running on Gatorade. I may as well take some at a LOT of the aid stations and see how that works.

I'm getting excited.