Ran an easy 4 miles at just under 8:00/mi after work with Darin. Darin's running the 1/2 marathon on Saturday with his 15 y.o. son. This might be the year when the boy overtakes his father and finishes first. This will be his son's first 1/2 marathon, and he might be in for a little surprise. It's all about preparation and pacing. We'll see if the old, wiser patriarch prevails! :-) My shoulders were a little sore today during the run. No more pushups until after Saturday!!
Tomorrow is packet pickup. I'll head to downtown Ft Worth and lunch time and get all my goodies. I'll pick up about 5 GUs or PowerGels--I'll probably get three of them with caffeine, for the extra boost in the second half. This is exciting!!!!! I'm messing with my Garmin today, trying to figure out which fields to display for optimum pacing. I'm turning OFF the auto-lap feature, so I can manually hit the "lap" button at each mile marker to give me a more accurate idea of where I am. Even if my Garmin says 26.5 miles when I finish, I'm still only getting credit for 26.2, and need to make each lap average 8:23/mi...I'm going to have "Avg Lap", "Last Lap", "Laps", and "Current Lap" on one screen. HR, elapsed time, distance (in case I forget what mile I'm on), Avg Pace on the other screens. I'm also going to wear an "old school" Timex on the other wrist -- I'll probably set the timer to 3:40:00 and start it counting down once I cross the finish line. Sometimes it's easier in the later miles to divide the miles remaining by the time remaining to figure out what kind of pace I need to maintain to the finish. Can you say, I'm overthinking this Pacing role just a little bit..:-)
OK, enough of my pre-race babblings.. bfast: shredded wheat, milk lunch: PBJ, small bag of potato chips, yogurt, grapes, water dinner: Chicken/pasta/spinich/bleu cheeses/ strawberry salad, milk, 2 biscuits w/ honey. Well it's off to my massage appointment....(my wife is a massage therapist...lucky me!!!!)
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