{"id":986,"date":"2014-06-12T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=986"},"modified":"2014-06-12T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T00:14:04","slug":"vancouver-half-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Half Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

My plan for the Vancouver Half that is just over a week away is pretty simple… HAVE FUN! \u00a0No time goal, no pressure, no running until I want to throw up. \u00a0There will be sightseeing, high-fiving, maybe even some picture taking. \u00a0When I feel like picking up the pace I will, and when I feel like walking, I’ll do that too. \u00a0I’m not going to worry about negative splits or conserving energy. \u00a0I will just run for the fun of running because yes, even though it isn’t always the case, running can be fun and sometimes I need to remind myself of that. \u00a0A few days after the marathon I realized it wasn’t my disappointing finish time that bothered me most, it was the fact that I missed the “high” of a race, that rush of excitement that makes you feel like a kid again. \u00a0To a certain extent I am still in recovery mode from that day, so I know there is no chance of a super fast half. \u00a0But that isn’t the point of this race.<\/p>\n

The run should be beautiful and the course is a net downhill but with a “bump” in the road so to speak.<\/p>\n

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See that bump near the end? \u00a0Doesn’t look like much on an elevation map. \u00a0However, this is what it looks like in real life:<\/p>\n

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I think I will probably feel this one on the way up, particularly so late in the race. \u00a0But the view will be amazing and the bridge is commemorated on the race medal:<\/p>\n

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I’ve not been training for this race. \u00a0 I have had a few fun runs though and have managed to do a 10k and 14k as my “long” runs. \u00a0I’m hoping to get one more of those in before race day. \u00a0June, along with December, has always been a low mileage month for me. \u00a0As a teacher there are just too many things to do at this time of year. \u00a0Any run I get in is a bonus. \u00a0And now that the marathon is complete, I am enjoying treating myself to some junk food and am just not prepared to give it up for this race. \u00a0So essentially, I am not doing anything “right” for this race… except getting excited enough to have a smile on my face whenever I think about it. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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My plan for the Vancouver Half that is just over a week away is pretty simple… HAVE FUN! \u00a0No time goal, no pressure, no running until I want to throw up. \u00a0There will be sightseeing, high-fiving, maybe even some picture taking. \u00a0When I feel like picking up the pace I will, and when I feel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-fU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}