Marathon training continues to move along. I am about to wrap up my tenth week of training for the Chicago Marathon. En route to that, I am running a half marathon next weekend (8/17) in Madison, WI.
I am returning to the Madison Mini Marathon! Despite having a less than stellar race at this race last year, I LOVED the event so I am thrilled to run it for the second year in a row. I actually was thinking that I don't repeat many races these days so the fact that I am repeating this race says a lot! (You can read about last year's race here.)
While my priority has been marathon training (I just hit my first ever 70+ mile week last week!), I think that I can squeak out a half marathon PR next weekend. The course is a bit hilly, but it is very similar to the first half of the Madison Marathon and during that race in Fall 2018, I DID PR my half marathon by 1 second. My current half marathon PR is 1:28:35 and my first half split of Madison Marathon was 1:28:34.
The race is really well organized, you run through UW Madison campus (my alma mater!), the shirts are cool, the medals are blingy, you get free race photos and a beer on the terrace after the race. Honestly, that comes quite close to perfect for me.
My only remaining to-do is get my kids registered for the kids' race. They had a great time with this race last year...or maybe they just liked meeting Bucky Badger.
My family is excited to spend a long weekend in Madison as well. Madison is always a family favorite vacation spot for us.
If you want to run the Madison Mini, you can take $15 off the half marathon entry fee with code BIBRAVE15 and $5 off the 5K entry fee with BIBRAVE5. Registration closes on 8/16 at 11 AM CDT.
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