13 hours away.

And just like I said, 5 days just flew by and race day is upon me. In less than 13 hrs I'm going to be lined up at the start.

The route for 21.1K looks great. A nice long stretch of 10.5 K along the coast line and back. I am very familiar with this route having run along it many times. Its more or less flat except for the Adyar River bridge at around 8 kms in (and again on the way back). As with every race, I like to look up the route on google maps and break it down km-wise and sort of mentally run the course. While the original plan (at the beginning of my training) was to run the 21K as 3 segments of 7K in 43 min each (43min x3 = 129 min = 2:09) I have since switched my focus to just running strong. 

Since a PB looks extremely unlikely, I will be happy with any time thats less than my very first HM timing (which was 2:45:30). However, I will be very pleased if I can run it in less than 2:30:00. So to that end, I'm gunning for 7K in 50 min each (50min x3 = 150 min = 2:30). This feels doable. :)

This morning I went to the expo. It was quite the distance away but still, worth my while - it was well organised, with quite a few interesting stalls. Collected my bib without having to wait in any long lines, took a couple of pics and all-in-all felt really good about running an event again after all this time. 

Got home, did my race fit flat lay, readied up my shoes, did a bit of mobility, took stock of the butterfly population in my tummy and now going to settle in, relax, have a good dinner and go to bed early.

21183. I hope thats a lucky Bib