Its been another chaotic week as I head into the final taper week for the Harrisburg marathon. I didn’t have the opportunity to write, or even update anything related to running as timely as I would have liked to. I guess i’m still just trying to adjust to the new job and new schedule and added responsibilities …
I got all my runs in, although most of them were cold except Thursday morning. I went above and beyond Thursday, and also this morning and added a mile here and there, but I really feel that my running is at the peak point once again … its a little early to peak, but I think heading into next weekend I should be primed to go. My big concern is the weather so I headed out to the running store this morning, got new shoes of course (because my others are beat), and a new Under-Armour base layer that actually works. Last year I bought some cheapo base layer that doesn’t do anything except make me cold when it gets wet, so its time to retire that. I hope this works.
The weather going into next weekend doesn’t appear too bad… its expected at this point to be around 45 degrees in the morning (for the start) and warm up to the mid to upper 50’s with NO RAIN. Again, its a week out, so that can change a hundred times, but we’ll have to go with what we have.
I just have my 14 miler left tomorrow morning, which I traded off for today since tonight we set the clocks back, I figure i’ll be up early anyway due to that… It’ll also be easier because the sun will be up earlier then, which i’m expecting to see daylight again by just after 6am … whereas now its a joke.
As I noted above, I’ve had a real good pre-taper week with my times and all, i’ve really felt strong and confident that Harrisburg will be a good experience. I hope to do it in the 3:45 that I set for Steamtown, but i’m not sure of it, i’ll really have to work towards it. I guess completing it is really the goal, so we’ll see how we do.
Maybe i’ll write again tomorrow, it’ll depend, i’m concentrating on getting the runs in and keeping my life managed .. its a real struggle right now.