So it is 2 weeks today to the WPS Half Marathon. My times seem ok on the treadmill – they are certainly an improvement over where I was going into the Goofy Race and Half Challenge in January but I don’t really know where I stand right now for the upcoming race.
The weather still is not cooperating for running outside – I have had 2 outdoor runs on gravel in the past month or so and they have both been slow. It snowed today (on April 21st? Can this end already and warm up?) and I was not prepared to do a 3 hour run outside.
I am going into one of the tough weeks: -/5/10/5/-/10/20 this week so a total of 50 miles this week – making it through should do good things for my confidence but a few outdoor runs would really help. I would love to be able to the 10 and 20 on Saturday and Sunday outside to really see where I am.
The week after that is relatively light to allow a bit of a taper going into the half marathon race. -/5/6/5/-/2k/13.1
The 2k is the Run at the Ridge race that I will be doing with my son, daughter and wife. It is a bit of a family / community race that is run in and around the elementary school my son goes to. Not sure how that is going to go – the best would be for us all to run together but I know my son, who is older than my daughter, will want to run ahead. He did really well last year but I’m not sure he has the same endurance he had last year since we can’t seem to get outside to run and play too much due to the weather. So it would be better if we could convince him to just run with us. Not sure if that will happen though. Should be interesting.
I am in the second wave at the WPS Half – they have never had wave starts before so I don’t know how that will go either. Plus the long range weather trend isn’t looking all the great for that day either. There are apparently still large snow piles in the starting area that haven’t melted yet and considering the temperature isn’t really forecast to get much warmer yet (high temperature forecast for tomorrow is 13C colder than the normal highs for this time of year), I don’t know if the snow will melt by the time of the race or not. So weather could definitely play a factor – maybe not the heat factor from the Goofy this year but standing around in colder weather waiting for the race to start (especially with waiting for a second wave start) could have an impact. Always interesting.
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