What to do the day before a half marathon? When do you run, what do you eat? What do you need to know race morning to finally hit that PR or simply finish your first half marathon? Steady pace, negative split? Let’s talk half marathon race strategy tips!!
Training is supposed to be the hard part and race day the celebration, at least that’s what we’re often told.
But for many runners, race day is filled with nerves or they cross the finish line knowing they could have done better…but how?
Today we’re going to dive in to everything you need to know for race weekend. Because if you don’t treat the few days pre-race right, it may not matter what pacing strategy you attempt to follow! Your half marathon pace plan requires your body being healthy, happy and well…the right weather!
Let’s get started with some half marathon tips that work for every level of runner.
Half Marathon Race Strategy
We’ll get to the actual race, but first let’s start with everything we’re doing in the 48 hours before the race.
Because if you make a mistake like eating fried catfish because you’re trying to please your future husband…let’s just say that you could end up seeing a lot of the Nashville Rock N Roll porta potties on the course. (cough, not that I’d know anything…
