I got out the door at 6:30am - the sun starting to rise, the temperatures still in the low 60s, and very few people out and about due to the long weekend.
I ran my 9 mile route to Olde Town Gaithersburg and back, however, this morning I reversed the route...just to take some of the monotony out of the run.
I had a Fantasy Football podcast on my iPod (my second - and last - FFB draft is tomorrow) and I just ran at a comfortable pace for 1:37:28. It felt so good, I probably could have gone another 97 minutes!
During the run I did start thinking about how I would attack the Half Marathon in two weeks. Should I just run it nice and easy again? Should I run with one of the pacing groups? Should I try to work on pacing this week and target a specific time? In the past I've worked on targeting a specific heart rate zone, so doing that again is also a possibility.
The other thing I need to think of is how to prepare. The only run I know I'll be doing is the Rockville Millennium Trail - I'm running this 10.8 mile loop with my sister next weekend. Other than that, I have no training schedule. I'd like to run 4 days this week and next week (3 leading up to the race). Perhaps each week doing a longish run (like this morning), a tempo run and an easy run and then the long run on the weekend. We'll see how it goes.
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