Thursday, May 7, 2009

Mini-Fart Before SB

Rough day at work, led me to running today's planned recovery as a mini-fartlek type workout. Started with a warm-up, then a mile @ HMP, followed by a mile @ MP, then a hill sprint and a couple of strides thrown in at the end. 4 miles total. Feel better now. So does my ankle.

So tomorrow afternoon, I'll be driving up north to the Santa Barbara area to run the Santa Barbara Wine Country Half-Marathon. Plan is to get there before the expo closes, maybe attend this Bart Yasso dinner/wine event, and hopefully hit the sack early.



Strategy? To start out fairly conservative for the mild climb until mile 7 (~7:35-7:45 pace), then pick up the pace a little for the back part of the course (sub-7:35 hopefully).

Goals? A) a sub-1:38, B) a new PR (sub-1:40).

..or at least run BTTW til the very end. Leave it all out there.

We shall see on Saturday morning.

8 comments:

Joe said...

Knock 'em dead. Looking forward to the race report.

Glenn Jones said...

Good luck Billy! Can't wait for the RR!

cody@codywestheimer.com said...

Cool bro! Seeya soon! And thanks again for giving Julia a ride up to fire country for me. What is BTTW?

Alaskan Assassin said...

Have fun and stay positive when the going gets tough out there.

I am running my second half marathon ever (the 1st one was over 2 years ago) next week so I will need your race report to get some insights into how to run one.

Tear it up!!

Oz Runner said...

good luck hitting a pr!

Chic Runner said...

Good luck billy! :) You will kill it and hope the fire doesn't get in your way :( Can't wait for the RR, take videos of your trip so I can be entertained on monday.

Ms. V. said...

Good luck, and stay safe!

lindsay said...

good luck! run hard and kick ass. leave it all on the course!