It’s the Chilly Half-Marathon this week! Between depressive funks, snow and slush challenges and simply not always having every kilometer done that I should have, I was beginning to dread race day, but now, the more I learn about the race, the more I’m fired up for it (free beer)!
Here’s a video review of last year’s race (free beer!) courtesy of Get Out There Magazine:
Here’s all the reasons I’m excited::
- Free Beer!
- Weather looks good.
- Free Coffee*
- Free Beer!
- Course is pretty flat:
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| Race Route is approximate… it was the best I could do with Google Earth |
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- Free Chilli
- On my last tempo run, my hear rate stayed at 78% of max or below, so I think I can make the finish line in less than two hours.
- Free Beer!
- It starts at 10:05 AM perfectly reasonable to get the whole family out, and because we have friends in the area, they won’t have to wait outside the whole time.
- Fitness Cheerleader is running this race too!
For this week’s training (still in Taper mode), I did 5 km on the treadmill Monday, a Trifecta Tuesday involving a 1.4km swim (with kick drills, fist swimming and water jogging), Rowga (which really stretched out all the muscles I wanted streched out!). I got my 1.5 mile tempo run with warm-up and cool-down giving me about 11 km total run for the week.
Hopefully the rest of the week and weekend will be restful… on Sunday I hope to run like there is no tomorrow. And from a training perspective, there won’t be!
looks awesome! Good luck!
Thanks!