It was time to taper training as the half marathon quickly approached. The longest run was only 3 miles. A lot of runners complain about having to taper but I had no problem with the fewer miles.
The weather forecast for race day was calling for light rain and 5 degrees. I struggled with deciding what to wear. I decided to go with a couple layers without rain gear.
Running socks were included with the registration and I tried them out on one of the short runs. I liked the feel and decided to go with them for race day.
When I signed up for the half marathon, I was required to provide an estimated race time. Since I was basically starting from scratch, I put down 2:15. I hoped that was pessimistic. My previous two half marathons were done in 1:56:48 and 1:57:59 and I still held out hope of a sub-2 hour time even though I'm 14 years older than my last race.
I was happy to see that my VO2 Max continued to rebound and was back up to 39.9.
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