Week Before the "Around the Bay Road Race"

Well, it's one week before the "Around the Bay 30Km Road Race", and I'm starting to get very excited. This is going to be a good time, and a great course. I used to live in Hamilton/Burlington, so this one means a lot to me. Too bad Karine and our kids cannot be there to cheer me on. Oh well, next year.

I think I have a good strategy for the course. I plan to run the first 10Km at an easy warm up pace - 7 minutes per kilometer. At the 10Km marker I plan to step it up a little, bringing my average pace down to 6:30 minutes per kilometer. Then of course down to 6:00 minutes per kilometer for the last 10Km. I'm comfortable with this, and given I have never run this course I think it's safe. And I think just like every other run, closer to the end I will be passing the burnouts that went out too fast, and the ones that bonked because they didn't bring enough fuel.

Here is a map of the course.

Wish me luck. I will post my results and thoughts on the course, once it's over.

Happy Running!!