Race Preview: Chilly Half-Marathon

It’s the Chilly Half-Marathon this week!  Between depressive funks, snow and slush challenges and simply not always having every kilometer done that I should have, I was beginning to dread race day, but now, the more I learn about the race, the more I’m fired up for it (free beer)!

Here’s a video review of last year’s race (free beer!) courtesy of Get Out There Magazine:

Here’s all the reasons I’m excited::

• Free Beer!
• Weather looks good.

• Free Coffee*
• Free Beer!
• Course is pretty flat:

Race Route is approximate... it was the best I could do with Google Earth

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• Free Chilli
• On my last tempo run, my hear rate stayed at 78% of max or below, so I think I can make the finish line in less than two hours.
• Free Beer!
• It starts at 10:05 AM perfectly reasonable to get the whole family out, and because we have friends in the area, they won’t have to wait outside the whole time.
• Fitness Cheerleader is running this race too!

For this week's training (still in Taper mode), I did 5 km on the treadmill Monday, a Trifecta Tuesday involving a 1.4km swim (with kick drills, fist swimming and water jogging), Rowga (which really stretched out all the muscles I wanted streched out!).  I got my 1.5 mile tempo run with warm-up and cool-down giving me about 11 km total run for the week.

Hopefully the rest of the week and weekend will be restful... on Sunday I hope to run like there is no tomorrow.  And from a training perspective, there won't be!