Ready for Derby, er uh, Nahsville

So I got an email last week stating that the Derby Marathon and Half Marathon were closed. Which was fine with me since I had registered months ago...or so I thought. Turns out I never registered! Oops! So I started thinking about doing the Pig, but it's a week later. Then I started thinking about Nashville. Jill is going and running the full marathon, so I'd have a friend to go with. Lucky me, my wonderful Gary is coming with me, too! Nashville is a good race, nice course, lots of support. It's just not what I had planned.

The taper is going well. I feel like crap as usual, but I've been able to get some rest. I think it will take a few more days of feeling out of shape and slow and I'll start feeling like I might actually be able to run a half marathon. KY allergy season is in full swing as well, so that adds to the crappiness feeling. As far as tapers go however, it hasn't been so bad. I'm not super crabby at least.

I feel prepared for this race. I've had some great workouts with the girls, and I feel like I've been running pretty strong. I have a goal of 1:45:xx for this weekend. I think it is a reasonable goal. Last year at Derby I went 1:50:xx and I was pretty happy with that. I think I might be in better running shape this year, though. We'll see! It should be a good day.

There are a few things I still need to do before we leave Friday. One of which is coming up with a race strategy. I will definitely use the run/walk plan, probably walking 30 seconds through the aid stations. I'm assuming aid stations are about every mile. Have I mentioned that I'm really glad this is only a half???