This Week's Not-so-long Run

Coach BB wanted: 8 miles
I delivered: 8 miles

My before the run photo

This week I only had to run 8 miles for my long run because I'm tapering for the half marathon next Sunday. So I slept in a little, let the sun come out and then ran along the Dom Bosco road to the start of the race, ran across the first bridge and came back. The half is called the Bridges Half Marathon and it starts right next to the Costa e Silva Bridge so we cross that right at the beginning of the race and then we cross the much more dramatic JK Bridge at about the half way point and then loop back around to finish right where we started.

The most exciting part of the run was that I saw the wild guinea pigs again! I used to see them all the time last year and hadn't seen them yet this year. They live right near the water and look just like escaped guinea pigs. 

                                                 

So this week I'll be taking it easy: yoga, 30 min tempo run, a five and a couple of threes. Then Sunday it's on! I'm going to try and beat my time from last year which was 1:51. And be recorded as a femino since last year they put me in the masculino column. Lofty goals but I think I can do it!

My after the run photo, taken by Eleanor