A quiet week and a big race this weekend

Not much to report today. I plan to run easy this week with two rest days of no running at all. This weekend I have the Avenue of the Giants Half Marathon up in Humboldt county. This 13.1 mile race will be a good test of how much I've been able to improve my conditioning with 6 weeks of training. The 13.1 mile race will be a jump in distance from my current longest day of 10 miles. My first challenge will be to not start out too fast - my target first mile time of 8:50-9:00 will feel very slow in a race environment. The bigger test will be to then sustain that pace for the entire race. My goal is to finish in less than 2 hours.