A great way to get ready for race day is to schedule a dress rehearsal during your training. Find a half-marathon, 10 mile, 15K, or 10K race near you and register. It is a great way to get a feel for the anxiety of race morning, although not quite as nerve racking. It will give you an idea of planning your night before, your morning routine, etc. And you can use it to cover two workouts in one, a long run and a tempo run. If you time it right you can do a half-marathon on a weekend when you would normally run about the same mileage. If not just add a warm-up and cool-down to a shorter race. Don’t worry too much about the run matching your normal long run mileage. You will be running this at your race pace or faster, like a tempo run, so it will be a harder run than a regular long run. If you have 16 miles scheduled, and can find a 10 mile race, just add a mile or two each for a slow steady warm-up and cool-down and you’re good to go. Not only is it a great training run, a dress-rehearsal will give you the opportunity to work out any scheduling kinks of your race morning routine.
Next week: Plyometrics
Happy running,
Genevieve
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