I did a quick google search about what I should think about eating in the next week before the marathon and found this:
Five to seven days out: Ease up on mileage.
During most weeks of marathon training, your muscles never have a chance to fully reload with glycogen. Runners and other endurance athletes simply need to back off on training for a few days and muscle enzymes responsible for restocking glycogen will gradually begin to store more carbohydrate, helping build up your energy reserves for race day. Make sure you’re consuming at least three grams of carbohydrate per pound of body weight during this time period to meet your needs.
The thing that stuck out the most to me was this line: "During most weeks of marathon training, your muscles never have a chance to fully reload with glycogen." During the last few months in your journey, it's been a similar story- you still have not quite had a chance to reload. Getting engaged, getting on the list for the transplant, packing up, ER visits, moving to Pittsburg, finding your way in a new town, meeting new doctors and nurses, getting the call on May 17th, having a double lung transplant, recovering, moving around in the hospital, feeling cooped up, and doing karate kicks trying to get back in room 9D.... (and I know I have barely scratched the surface here.)
Praying for you two to have some pockets of time where you can reload in the coming days...
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