In 24 hours from right now I should be sitting on a plane on my way home. So happy! Good news, I think I'm finally over JetLag, bad news I get to deal with it all over again. I've pretty much been in a constant jeglag for 2 months, I've been coming back and forth every 2 weeks which is just about the time it takes to completely get used to the time change. My run started out kind of tired this morning but I got into it pretty quick and it actaully felt really good. Pretty happy these 12 milers are actually getting easier and I don't really have much fatigue from the day before. I'll probably take the next 2 days off due to travel. I was going over my race plan for next week. I compared my calculator to the top 3 finishers from last year and it is almost dead on to what splits they ran it in, so I think the tool is a good reference. I noticed something fairly interesting going over my splits from last year. I ran the first 18 miles about 7 minutes faster than plan, the last 18 miles about 15 minutes slower than plan (with the rattlesnake incident) so the interesting thing was that the middle 14 miles I gave up almost 1 whole hour, I was surprised by that cause I'd assumed I wasted too much time at the 2 main aid stations. Looking at the profile map it's no surprise that that middle stretch is the hardest, 3000' climb in 14 miles but the calculator takes that into account. So, what this tells me it that I suck at going uphill. Pretty sure I can't fix that problem in the next week but it's a good thing to know in the back of my mind while I'm trudging up hill suckin air. http://goo.gl/bFrgH
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