Yesterday was 10 miles, which is the longest I've ever run to date. I ran a 10 mile race in June and finished in 1:36:44. Yesterday's 10 took me almost 2 hours! That was kind of disappointing, but I did eat a giant steak dinner the night before, and had much wine, so maybe that made me sluggish. I know race time is always better than training time, but 25 minutes is a big window.
I felt good while I was running, and took a few walk breaks so I wouldn't burn out my legs. I'm terrified of injury right now since the Half is less than 2 weeks away, so I know I'm not pushing myself as much as I usually do. My legs were tired afterwards, but not sore. The knees were okay, too. I'm really feeling strong for this.
I need to take the time this week to map out a plan for the race weekend. There's no race day pick up, so I have to haul my suburban self into the big ol' city twice. Blech. It's against my religion to pay that much for parking once, let alone twice. Maybe I'll take the train like a big girl. The day of the race, I don't even know exactly where I'm going, or where I need to park, or anything. I'm considering just staying in the city for the night, and I can pick up the packet the day before on the way to the hotel. But I'm afraid I won't sleep as well in a strange bed. Or maybe I'll miss my wakeup call. Aaaargh. I have such issues.
I'm really excited, but the little details are messing with my head.
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Noelle, don't know which direction you're coming from into the city, but I thought it was really tough to get into the place where the race was. We took a shuttle from Wrigleyville - had stayed in Rogers Park with friends. Anyway it was *way* south to the start line and took us a long, long time in traffic to make it back up to Wrigleyville.
All that to say - take a good look at where you have to go for the race start and make your plan!
And btw you are going to do great. If you ran 10, you have this in the bag.
Noelle, I am super excited for you. I think ur gonna do wonderful! Good thing on listening to the bod and walk when u needed to. I was cracking up at the Surburban self, I drive a Yuxon XL, same diffrence. Let's just say I can park an 18 wheeler now if need be.
You'll do great in the half, Noelle! I read that it's good to not kill yourself in training so no worries about the time. Eh, I'd take the Metra to the packet pickup. Not sure about race day but you'll figure it out!
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