Taper

With less than a week until the race (ah, seems crazy) I have started to taper.  My training plan outlined that I should run 6 miles yesterday and indeed I did.  But boy, it felt hard!  Instead of planning out a route before hand, I actually just ran for an hour.  I feel like I have a good idea of what a ten minute mile pace is so I just made it up as I went.  I'm not sure if I liked that or not.  It's nice to have a definite place to end and it's hard to try to calculate distances as I go, for example thinking okay how long will it take me to do a loop around Beebe Lake? and factoring that in as I go.  I think that that kind of running will be something I take with my after my project, just setting out and not really knowing where I am going.

The run got me a little worried for Sunday, though!  I have felt not as strong lately and this is just the absolute worst time for that.  My knees felt weak yesterday and I don't think I should be that tired after 6 miles.  I hope I can get it back over the next week though because otherwise I will be miserable for the last 10 of 13.1, ha!

I have been working on my research commentary to get to Ms. Maddren this week.  Another thing that came up that I need to remember to talk to Ms. G about is the information packet that we pick up at the race.  I will still be in Rochester for my regatta during the times we can pick those up, so I have to ask her if she can get mine for me (with a note) and then we can meet up that night or the next morning.  We are both staying close to the start so that probably means close to each other.

We got an email from the race organizers and it was so long!  It made me feel a bit anxious because this is a big race and I worry I will feel like a fish out of water.  There are a lot of directions to follow especially at the start and I really don't wanna get off a on a bad foot (haha!)

Trying to stay positive for this last week of hands on work!  Crazy how the year and these 16 weeks especially have flown by.