The half-marathon is so popular that at many races that offer both 26. I ran a half-marathon in Brooklyn on Mother’s Day, which turned out to be a fun way to celebrate the day. It’s really a better practice to tune into how your body feels, not what your Garmin reports. The point is: Your GPS is a more-or-less guide, not an absolute truth teller. Why does that happen? Something about the way the satellites pinpoint you and whether you’re running the tangents (the shortest distance between two points). When I ran the Philadelphia Love Half Marathon in March 2017, my Garmin bzzzz’d way before/after I passed the mile markers on the course.
Will you drink at every station, every other station? Will you take water or sports drink? Your needs are different from mine, and I know you practiced in your training runs, right, right? *5 Garmin freakout! *4 Have a drinkīefore race day, find out at which mile markers the organizers set up water/sports drink aid stations and HAVE A PLAN. My trick has been to wear layers I can take off once I’ve warmed up and put back on when I get cold again, because that always happens: a long-sleeve T I can tie around my hips, gloves and/or a knit hat. And you will draw energy from each person you pass-you’ll be an energy vampire, as Sage Rountree explains-which is REALLY FUN! *3 What are you wearing?ĭo you obsessively compulsively check weather-dot-com all week leading up to your race? Me too! I don’t like being too warm OR too cold, and if you’re anywhere near your peri/meno pause years, you probably understand. If you conserve energy in the first few miles, I promise you’ll pass the people in the last 3 who didn’t listen and went out too fast. Use the first mile to settle your nerves and into an easy pace, anywhere 15-30+ seconds slower than “goal” pace. This is good news, especially since you are probably not there to set a world record.
Are you going to the Cape Cod BAMR retreat? *1 Use this mile to warm upĮvery world record from 1500 meters to the marathon has been run with “negative splits”-that is, the first half of the race slower than the second half.
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