A very tough week mentally – a sick kid that affected my ability to get strength training done, and really focus on my runs the way I wanted to. Did change things up and did two pretty hard runs during the week – and finally hit the dreaded long run on Sunday – it was basically a half marathon in itself – and I really did keep going until I hit that 13.1 distance. I fueled much better for the run, no issues of hitting a wall this time, though I did end up swinging by the house to refill water about half way through. It was getting warm, and I was drinking so much more than I usually do!
Now, the tapering begins. No more hard speed or hill work. And long runs start to get shorter and shorter until race day. Which is only 19 days away! I’m going to admit – I am nervous about it. Its time to focus on keeping my fitness and trusting in my training. If everything goes just right – I might be able to PR this time. It will all come down to my knee and hip – and how long the lines are for character pictures.
So what does my taper week look like? This week will be 5, 5, 3 and 8 miles. All fairly easy paces – so nothing crazy hard.
While I know I should be backing off weight training, especially on my legs – my current work out is focusing on glutes, and I think I should be ok to continue to work on that strength – hoping it will hope hold off IT Band flare-ups on race day.
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