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5 miles at 8pm the heat was still unbearable.

This is the highest mileage of the week. Tomorrow a few fast miles to test my half-marathon pace and then the rest of the week will be a mini taper before sunday half-marathon. My taper consists in a few slow miles (3-4) every day, no real rest day. It is always nice to have an excuse to rest for a few days and enjoy the extra time available, until running cravings start again.

I did a general reharsal for next sunday race, shoes, shorts, shirt and race pace.

I did 1 km as a warmup and then 5k at race pace (4:07-4:10/km): 4:11, 4:10, 4:06, 4:06, 4:04. 3 more km as a cool down.

Overall I was tired and demotivated at the start, but as soon as I started the tempo run everything was going according to the plan. I whish I had at least a 10k training run at that pace during the last two weeks, it would have been a great confidence booster. 

A few days of low mileage (even with some speed yesterday) gave new life to my legs. Tonight 4 miles but I am getting really anxious to go longer and faster.

Another 4 miles a slow pace. The mental topic of tonight's run were the goals for the upcoming race.

Goal A 1:28. It is my PR done last february. It will be hard going faster than that on a tougher course.

Goal B under 1:29:18. It is my second best time for the half, I would really like to finish faster than that.

Goal C under 1:30:07. This is my fastest time on this course and it would be really nice to beat at least that time.

Everything else it means something went wrong and it will be just a training run.

Another 4 miler, it was relaxing.

Final run to check the weather, I started from the starting line of tomorrow's race went slowly over the first 2.5 km and then turned around. At 9am that part of the road was in the shade and it was completely flat and I was running >10:00/mile, in spite of that I was sweating big time.

Tomorrow it will be hot.