The taper is in full flow now but the plan still wants 13 miles at a decent pace one week before the marathon. With fresher legs this was not a problem, in fact the main goal was not to get carried away.
The first half was into the wind at an easy effort and the pace was comfortably below 8 minute miles. After the turnaround it was time to up the effort and I was happy to see the pace drop all the way down to 7 minute miles.
Of course I can never stop a run at 13 miles, it has to be 13.11 for a half marathon. This was done in under 1:40 so a nice final long run.
Seven days to go now. It is starting to feel real. 26 miles is an intimidating distance to race so my way of dealing with the pressure is to treat it as just another race as much as possible and not take it too seriously.
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