I have my bib.

I’ve run my quick little Saturday shakeout run.

I’ve stayed off my feet as much as I could Thursday night, Friday afternoon, and all day Saturday.

I’m trying to eat as many carbs as I can.

I’m as ready as I can be for the New York City Marathon on Sunday.

And if you’re looking to keep tabs on how I’m doing, here’s some of what you should know.

You may remember I wrote a post like this a few times before - the first time I ran the Boston Marathon, the second time I ran the Boston Marathon, and when I ran the Chicago Marathon.

New York will be my fifth marathon - you may have already read about some of what inspired me to do it this year.

There’s certainly added excitement for this one as I experience my home city in an entirely new way.

There is an app - that’s a picture of it there at the right - where you can track me throughout the day and see how it’s going.

These apps are great - a couple of weeks ago I followed my friend Kevin around Chicago as he ran that marathon and followed his progress as I made my way to various spots along the course.

I’ll have my own little support crew in Queens on Sunday which I’m looking forward to, but if any of you plan on being out along the course, please let me know where I should look.

Surprises are fun but I might not see you unless I know to look for you.

And I guess this only applies to those of you seeing this on Saturday…if you see it on Sunday, well, hopefully I see you out there.

I am scheduled to get going at around 11:30am on Sunday.

Once again, I have set myself the (what I think is) attainable goal of finishing in less than 5 hours.

My approach this time is a little different. I had such a good 20-mile training run when I was preparing for Chicago - that’s the last long run before I tapered down in the few weeks leading up to the race - that this time I built my training plan around making the 20-mile week the marathon week. (If you click on that Chicago link above you can see I felt very good about that 20-miler a few weeks before the Chicago Marathon.)

So the plan is to stick to my pace - and not go too fast. I’ve done some digging in previous races and there’s always an early mile or two where I go a little too quick out of the gate and I pay the price later on.

That’s the hard thing about these marathons - you spend so long training but you only get one shot at doing it right on race day.

Which could be tough - but luckily I love that training process.

So we’ll see if we get it right this time.

That said - if you’re looking for me along the route - the tracking on the app will tell you what time I started…and then you can just add 11 minutes to that for each mile you anticipate seeing me…11 minute miles are my goal and should give you a good indication of when I’ll get to each mile marker.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Safe At Home Foundation - we have reached the fundraising goal. I appreciate your support.

The weather looks about as perfect as could be.

I’m only slightly daunted by the idea of running 26.2 miles. I am not letting the “I don’t know if I can do this” creep into my brain.

I think the number one thing I need to work on is quieting my brain during the run.

Hopefully I’m able to do that on Sunday.

I’m planning on writing about how it went, so stay tuned for that.

Maybe I’ll see you somewhere in the 5 boroughs on Sunday.