Almost there...

When you wish upon a star...that is right I can hear the Disney music playing already as I am less than a week away from the Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon! The cool thing about this race...I am the only person doing it (atleast in my little running circle). Even cooler....we get to go to Florida in what has turned out to be a very cool October out there on the Prairie Path. The coolest thing....the race starts at 10pm..yep I get to run through 3 theme parks at night. WAY COOL!!

The funny thing...this poses 3 very cool situations...but also creates 3 new aspects to running and training that I haven't encountered yet. (...and am totally freaked out about)

1-I DON"T HAVE ANYONE TO RUN WITH! I always run with a group. Occaisionally you will catch me doing a 4 miler or tagging an extra 2 miles onto a run by myself. But start to finish 13.1 miles?! So I have a plan...I am going to get to the expo hoping to find a pace group so I can latch onto someone and probably in 13.1 miles learn a whole lot more than I ever wanted to know! In case that fails, I have loaded my IPOD with 2 hours of my favorite sing a long songs :).

2-YESTERDAY IT WAS 75 degrees and 91% humidity at race time and on race day its projected to rain :( I have been training on beautifully cool days with almost no humidity. So race conditions will be very different. My plan...to go with the flow! The one thing you can't control on race day is the weather. So say a little prayer to mother nature for me!

3-THE RACE IS AT NIGHT! While this will make the race an UBER COOL experience, I have never run later than 4pm and that has been only a handful of times. 90% of my training has practically been before the sun is up! So for me, eating and most drinking will cease around 3pm...7 hours before race time, just like ti would if the race were at 6am. Lets hope there are bathrooms on the course...just in case!

So for now I am just enjoying the taper...3 easy 3-4 mile runs this week to cap off my training.

I'll post next week to let you know how it went..."See Ya Real Soon"