The final week

With only 7 days to go to the race my preparation is right on track. My runs in the last couple of weeks have remained strong with many pace or netter work outs, I even threw in some hill runs in the last few days that also came in at my goal pace.

For the next week I will be decreasing mileage with only 9 miles to be run between now and next Saturday. All of those will be very slooooowwww as I will be concentrating on resting this week. I will also be getting a massage later this week to loosen the muscles so, everything should be set for Sunday.

My goal remains to qualify for the 2011 Boston Marathon. I need an average pace of 7m28s per mile for the whole race, that is around a 35s/mile improvement from my last marathon but all of my training indicates that it is within me. The course in Phoenix is very flat and known to be fast so I am optimistic of a good time.

The cheerleaders have their positions and the weather is looking good, here is too a good time!

Run Cookie Run!