What I’m Focusing on for Race Week

While I have three half-marathons coming up, I consider this Sunday’s the most important. It’s the one I’m hoping for the best time in, because it’s the only one I’ve done before, and so I have a measure of what I can do on that course. Last year, I ran it in 2:13. Since then, I have run a 2:09 half.

My training for this half has been inconsistent at best. I’m thinking of refocusing my goal on just PR-ing, to be a little more realistic, rather than aiming at breaking 2:00. Either way, I plan on taking this race the most seriously.

So this week, I will be:

• trying to eat cleaner (more real/whole foods, less processed stuff and dairy)
• drinking lots of water
• limiting red meat and dairy
• limiting the booze (usually I would say eliminating the week before a race, but let’s get real: St. Patrick’s Day is Thursday. CARB-LOADING, my friends.)
• doing yoga at least twice
• strength training tonight
• doing 1-2 easy runs
• lots of stretching
• focusing on getting good sleep
• limiting the sugar

[You know, stuff I should be doing anyway.]

For breakfast, I had oats + sunflower butter + a banana. If you read other health blogs, you’ve probably already seen a picture of oatmeal today, and my oatmeal at work is not pretty, so I will spare you.

For lunch, I had a turkey burger, brown rice and broccoli from City Chow, the cafe in Equinox. Grocery shopping tonight!