Jeanie,

Congrats on your running your First Marathon, It sounds like you have a great Diet, and it sounds like mine.What I do and I would suggest is cut down an your carbs maybe 20 to 30 percent and just replace them with fruit and veggies until a day to two before the race then start your normal carb intake. Continue to drink lots of water and stay away from anything you havent try before durning your training.

Its going to be tough and your mind will think its going crazy with all the short miles youll be doing over the next 2 weeks, but hang in there youll get through it.

Youve done the training, now enjoy the ride Im sure youll do Awesome.....

Dennis

Calorie-wise, I treated the first week of taper as if it were half marathon training (since the long run that week was 13 mi). I then treated the second week of taper as if it were 10K training (since the long run that week was 9 mi). I continued at that level halfway through the third week of taper and then did some carbo-feeding for the last 3 days - same general number of calories per day but increased % carbohydrates to about 70%. Other than the extra % carbs in the last 3 days, I didn't change the composition of what I was eating, just the amounts. I had no problem maintaining weight.