Four nights to go. Last friday I did the last long one, a rather easy 19-20K, although at some points I was speeding at about 4.00\/km. The weather was perfect and running felt very good. Since then I’ve done just one 5K easy one. I’ll probably do two more 5-10K easy jogs before Saturday. The last week totalled less than 40K, or peanuts. This week will be even less – up until Saturday. Right now I’m feeling physically rested and ok. The only concerns are slight mental stress (not enough sleep due to kids & work stuff) and the old knee & back problems (they feel ok, but I can “sense” they may become an issue when the race will progress).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Four nights to go. Last friday I did the last long one, a rather easy 19-20K, although at some points I was speeding at about 4.00\/km. The weather was perfect and running felt very good. Since then I’ve done just one 5K easy one. I’ll probably do two more 5-10K easy jogs before Saturday. The … Continue reading “Getting closer…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valimaki.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}