Three weeks from today I’ll be running my race down in New Orleans. I think we’re finally close enough to check in with the weather – the 10 day forecast looks like lows in the mid-50s and highs around 70, with rain as the only possible problem. This past week I’ve run 48 miles, a high for the current cycle. From here I’m supposed to start tapering down somewhat but we’ll see, I’d like to keep it above 40 for numerical consistency’s sake. My three 20+ mile runs leading up to this race had splits of 8:57, 8:39 & 8:43, so I’m thinking it’s not unrealistic to think I might bring this race in under 4 hours (a 9:00 split would be ~3:56). Breaking that barrier would be a nice validation of this winter’s work.
Long run song of the week is from Sage Francis.
