Manhattan 7 Mile: Race Plans
Getting My Stuff:
I went to the NYRR RUNCENTER after work and grabbed my stuff. Nice and easy.
Outfit:
Last I checked (ie yesterday), T+D for this race was supposed to be around 148ish. So lightweight clothing is a must. I'm doing laundry tonight so I have all of my wardrobe open to me ... but I think I've settled on the same outfit I wore to the Japan Run in May - INKnBURN Kaze Tech shirt, black skirt. This time with my new black capris, I think.
This outfit (minus the jacket, which I will once again check in my bag check bag, and with a different pair of capris):
Getting To The Race:
I honestly have no idea what the trains are doing on Sunday. The F may or may not be running on the E line. The E may or may not be running on the F line. So here's what I'm gonna do:
Get off at Lexington.
If the F is on the F line, then that's Lex and 63rd, and I can walk to the race. If the F is on the E line, Lex is Lex and 53rd, so I'll transfer to the 6 and take that up to 68th (and walk from there).
I just hope that if I do end up at Lex and 53rd the escalators are working. I haven't taken the 6 at all this week (I'm lightly avoiding it), but for the past few weeks one of the escalators has been out of commission and it's been a giant PITA during rush hour. Especially because I hate stairs, so I've been dying walking up the stairs (because I'm not waiting on the super long line for the one escalator).
Probably gonna leave around 6:15-6:30ish.
Race Plan & Goals:
The goal for this race is to run it continuously.
Going into this, I thought that was an achievable goal, especially because I wasn't tying myself to a particular pace and could slow down if necessary.
In my Sunday night message to Coach, I took that goal off the table. Coach tried to talk me back into it, and I ended up agreeing.
Plan is to start at a 13:00 min/mi pace, speed up as the race progresses, and slow down if it stops feeling easy (this is especially true on the hills, of which there are several, because Central Park).
7 miles @13 min/mi is 91 minutes. I'm setting my time goal as 1:31, but I'm hoping I can come in below that. (Yes, I do know that I will probably run more than 7 miles. But if I speed up for a few minutes, I'll probably still make it.
Training:
This race is the "A" goal of my second
@DopeyBadger plan. This plan was really interesting because it had a variety of days, paces, and run lengths that meant that no two weeks were the same.
(I'm sure Coach Billy will disagree with me on this, but ...) Training for this race went pretty badly. There were so many days when I just didn't want to go out and run. There were runs that were shortened. Tempo runs that became easy runs. Runs that were nowhere near their scheduled pace. There were even a few skipped runs.
The big mental test for me was supposed to be my long run July 15th, which was 2.5 mi Easy/LR Intervals + 5 mi Long Run Continuous Pace + 2.5 mi Easy/LR Intervals. That run went fairly badly, and I lost a lot of my confidence in my training for this race. But I had a 3.5(ish) run at Easy Continuous pace on Tuesday (in the heat + humidity + rain) that went really well, so I'm starting to get my confidence back. Coach is helping with that too.
Post-Race:
I would like to head home sooner rather than later because I have stuff to do at home. So I'll probably pack a snack for the ride home, maybe stop somewhere for coffee, and just head home. Nothing exciting.
Track Me:
Tracking Link:
https://liveresults.nyrr.org/e/NYRR-MANHATTAN72018#/tracker
Bib Numer:
2090
So ... if my bib number doesn't have instant significance to me (which this doesn't), I usually google the number to see what comes up. Guys, I have some bad news. Thanks to climate change, we're all gonna be dead by the year 2090. Fun stuff.
Thankfully, I didn't stop my googling on that note. I eventually discovered "DL 2090":
The fact that it's a flight to MCO is exciting. But there's more.
As some of you may know, I lived in the Boston area for a few years when I was in middle school. My first trip to Walt Disney World (and my only trip with the whole family) was when we were living up there. We flew from Logan International Airport to Orlando International Airport.
But there's more. I'm fairly certain we were not on flight DL2090. But we did fly Delta ... or at least their (now defunct) low-budget airline, Delta Express. So this kind of evokes memories of my first Disney trip.
Based on the bib number alone ... It's gonna be a good race.
LOVE IT. I want it. Where did you get it? I have no place to wear a dress like that, but I still want it. Haha.
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