Sunday run with HIVE RUN race shirt! Breaking HM pr | 1 week to go!

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Sunday run with HIVE RUN race shirt! Breaking HM pr | 1 week to go!
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Hi all! Welcome to my running blog! Here I keep you up to date with my progress towards the NN Marathon Rotterdam 2025 that will be here in 7 days on april 13th. 

With 7 days to go my main objective is to do race preperation which is a mix of different aspects: 

- planning; making the checklist, what to do on night before race (for example charging watch, headset)
- resting and recovery; reducing the weekly kilometers, resting more. Swapping difficult runs with recovery runs. Sleeping more.
- carboloading - more on this topic next week - will start 4 days before the run. 
- speed work: with the reduction in kilometers you would want to maintain the same intensity. This means you will need to do atleast some zone 3 runs in your last few weeks. 
- dress rehearsal: here you simulate your planned race. Wear all the gear you would bring to the race and check if you need to make small adjustments to the plan! 

**Dress rehearsal**
Today I tried to simulate next weeks race. Waking up at 6 to follow my early morning schedule that provides enough time to eat, drink and go to the bathroom before the run. 

Following my nutrition plan I took my first  isotonic energy gel 30 min before my run.

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Wearing the new Hive Run race shirt and a shorts that holds 10 gels + salt tabs (and my phone) it felt good! At the early morning it was cold wearing only a tanktop but after a few kilometers it felt really good! (This provided me great feedback that I need to bring some warm clothes for close to the race). I am still considering my pace - today I went a little faster compared to planned pace and that did feel good - although it is only half the didtance and the marathon honestly really starts at kilometer 32. So I might readjust my planned pace to something between my pace today and my previously planned pace (4:45) => 4:35 / km? 

Another great insight I got was with regards to the nutrition plan:
1. The can which I use to carry the salt tabs is making distracting sounds (as it is made from metal) so I will try to tape the inside to reduce that sound.
2. Where my plan was to take a gel every 20 min, I might swap that to every 5km (+/- 23km) that would would allow me to combine the gel and drinking points and have less distractions from the run. 


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The run itself was again beautiful nice sun! Next week resting will have a more prominent role in my schedule. I am more than ready! 

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Happy running
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