Final week ’till it

OK, we’re here, the final week before the half-marathon.

I must confess I’m having mixed feelings about this. On one side, I’m focused on not overtraining and my working schedule led me to be unable to run as much as I wanted (or as I wished). There’s a drawback: I’m not sure if I packed enough miles for a 21 k race. For a 10k, for sure. For a 21k… maybe.

Enough of doubting… what’s granted for now is:

• I’ve developed a nice smooth endurance pace, something I was not achieving since last October.
• I’ve got more careful about food and drink. Drinking much more water and fulling with carbs, veggies and cereal bars. Without doing a revolutionary diet this week, the key elements will be pasta, rice, poultry, fish and, as they say, “one apple a day…”.
• Last half-marathon was a bit painful from the 15th kilometre onwards for two reasons: climbs and lack of fuelling at the start. To minimize that, I’ll pack a cereal bar one hour before starting and a gel before race start, as well as some sports drink.
• For this week, a slow 10k tomorrow, muscular exercises here and there, another race (around 6k Wednesday) and a 5k Thursday. Two days of rest will suffice.