Coming down the home stretch

I ran the last "tough" run of my half marathon training program before the big day today, a 30 minute tempo run that wasn't so great. It wasn't bad, but I didn't feel all that strong running. Maybe that has something to do with my being on a treadmill for the first time in a week, but sometimes you just have to accept it's your day for a bad run.

I made it about 4 miles with warm up and cool down, got some stretching in and in retrospect feel a little better about the day. Tempo runs are what you make of them anyway. Maybe I could have done this one in a way to make me feel better.

Tomorrow is an easy 2 miles, then a couple days of rest where my priority will be to stay warm and loose. Saturday I'm spending the night in a hotel in Frederick, MD so I don't have to drive there to pick up my race packet on Saturday, drive home, then drive back at 5:00am on Sunday morning. The race starts at 6:30, so it'll be nice to just be about a 10-15 minute drive from the starting line rather than an hour.

I'm oddly serene about this race. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. The week prior to my last half marathon I was a wreck. But that race didn't end the way I hoped, so maybe not being tensed up for a week will be a good thing for me.