• Home
  • About Me
  • So You Want to be a Runner...
  • Run Disney
  • Race Recaps
  • Running Bucket list
  • Chi Running
  • Primal Eating
  • New Years Resolutions
  • Where to Start
  • Saving Money!
  • Healthy Living Blogs
4 Well Rules
Eat Well, Sleep Well, Exercise Well and Be Well
A Formula for Healthy Living

2015 Sunset Strip Race Goals

4/16/2015

1 Comment

 
Picture

This weekend I will be running my 14th race of the year and my 4th half marathon (which will be my first and only non-Disney half marathon of the year). I will be running the Inaugural Sunset Strip half. As I have written about before, my boyfriend and his brother decided they want to run a half marathon to see who would "win" and I got dragged into it as well! 

Not going to lie, I am nervous about this course for a few reasons:

  1. It is new so I hope everything is figured out
  2. The race time got changed this week from 6:45 to 7 without an email or anything. I hope other things don't change last minute
  3. They haven't mentioned water stops, food stops, or medical stations. I will be asking at the Expo on Saturday. 
  4. The race starts and the 5k starts 30 minutes later running the same part of the course. Hopefully they have a separate area or I will definitely be slowed down
  5. The elevation-it has some very steep hills
  6. The trauma of the LA Marathon-we will be running over the same part of the course where I started to melt down a bit and I hoping it will not mentally effect me
  7. Time cut off. They originally said it was a 3 hr and 30 min cut off(16 min mile) but are now saying that you have to keep a 13 min mile pace. With the time change, I think some People may be in trouble


    I feel ready and plan on getting a lot of sleep this week and taking it pretty easy. I am also excited to carbload again!

    So onto the goals: 
    A GOAL: sub 2:13:43 (new PR)
    I think a PR attempt may be tough with the hills but I think the downhills and flat portions could help. I will need to average about 10 minute miles so we will see! 
    B GOAL: sub 2:20
    I feel like this is a good reasonable goal with the hills and allows for slow down time but allows for some downhill help. 
    C GOAL: sub 2:30
    This is always my goal and just incase it is very crowded or something goes wrong. 
    D GOAL: Finish with a smile :) 
    Who knows how all of this will go so a strong finish is always in the positive. 

    My plan is to wear my sparkle skirt so I can fit in my Clif shot bloks, clif shot, lip gloss, and leg spray. Thinking about the marathon reminds me I need to wear a hat for sure. The part we are running on has very little shade and it has been so sunny lately.
Picture
1 Comment
Tamieka
4/16/2015 02:10:53 am

Wow! An inaugural race-i am always so nervous to do those. I hope all goes well. Your goals (all of them) seem doable. I am so trying to work on trying to set realistic and attainable goals.

Good luck and have fun! Can't wait for the recap.

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Follow

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

    Picture

    Author

    A late 20-something navigating the world trying to stay sane with Chi Running, Primal Eating and Healthy Living!

    Tweets by @4wellrules
    PR's
    5k-:28:03 (Santa Anita Derby 5k-4/16)
    10k- :58:05 (Christmas Run-12/14)
    Half- 2:13:14 (Sunset Strip-4/15)
    Full- 4:56:48 (LAM-2/16)

    DISNEY PR's
    10k-1:19:18 (2015 Tinkerbell 10k)
    Half-2:32:56 (2016 Tinkerbell Half)

    Archives

    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013

    RSS Feed

    Categories

    All
    2013
    2014
    2015
    Angels 5k
    Avengers Half
    Bling
    Carlsbad 5000
    Coaster Run
    Costume
    Culver City
    Devin
    Devin Blogs
    Disney
    Disneyland
    Disneyland Paris
    Disneyland Paris Half Marathon
    DLPHM
    Dopey Challenge
    Dumbo
    Dundee Hills
    Eating
    Food And Wine
    Fridaylinkup
    Friday Link Up
    Fueled By Fine Wine
    Fueling
    Goals
    Greatrace
    Great Race
    Groceries
    Grocery-matchups
    Guest Blog
    Healthy
    Healthyliving
    Healthy Living
    Holidays
    Jeff Galloway
    Jules And Mal
    Juliana
    La-marathon
    La-rock-n-roll
    Long Beach Marathon
    Magical Mickey Mondays
    #nerdgirlsontherun
    New-foods
    Newyears
    New-years
    NYC Marathon
    Princess Half Marathon
    Quick-easy-meals
    Rock N Roll
    Rosemead 5k
    Rundisney
    Running
    Running PR
    Running PR
    Santa Anita
    Santa Monica Christmas Run
    So-you-want-to-be-a-runner
    Star-wars-dark-side
    Star-wars-light-side
    Star Wars Weekend
    Tinkerbell
    Tower-of-terror-10-miler
    Training-for-tuesday
    Traveling
    Triumph-thursdays
    Tuesdays-on-the-run
    Universal-studios-orlando
    Waltdisneyworld
    Walt Disney World
    Wine
    Wineanddine
    Wine And Dine
    Workouts

     photo b4ab3249-93bf-40fd-be35-fd2f080ef45d_zps7c103516.jpg
    Amazon Store

    Thanks for supporting the blog! 

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.