4-15-14 A solid run during a taper week

Alright so here I am, a few more days until I run the SLC Half Marathon. I am excited that it's here and that I get to do it. Next week I finish the semester and this is a nice finish to it. After I finish I have a week and a half before summer classes start. Then at mid term for summer block I have the Alpine classic half, and as the first summer block of classes ends I get to do Ragnar!

Today I set a new 4 mile PR. It was a 6 second shave off my race time. I wasn't even huffing and puffing when I did it like I was during my Thanksgiving Race. I can only imaging how I would do now.

After my run I sat down with Lisa and we talked about race day prep. The greatest advice she gave was, don't make changes to your routine for sleep. I get to wake up really early Saturday morning to make it to the race before 7. That will be fun. I live about an hour away from where the race is, and the train will be running early so I will be able to park near the finish line.

I will be following my now traditional day before the race meal, a massive salad from Cafe Rio (carb, veg and protein). It works well with carb loading the day before. Other nutrition for the week, I am going to cut back carbonation starting in three minutes when I finish my peach diet Dr Pepper. My personal goal is to be off carbonation again completely by the time I run my next half marathon. So I am allowing myself caffeine to finish off my semester. Lisa told that carbonation has different effects on people and I just know I was feeling better when I was not drinking it, I will also be cutting back on caffeine. I consume way too much of the stuff.

And finally my goals for the next three months when it comes to fitness and my health. I am working towards losing another 20 lbs (like I did between January and March). That will put me down to 260ish. I also have the goal to get my eating habit under control by increasing veggies and good lean proteins. I have already made the change to not drinking my calories, which has been one of the greatest changes.

It's time for me to work on some school work. Thanks for reading today.

-Riley

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