It's no coincidence that I found time to start my blog this week. Ever since my last very long run (22 miles), I've been tapering my training. For non-runners out there, this just means that slowly decreasing weekly milage for the 3 weeks leading up to the race. The idea is to have well rested legs so that on race day I'm at my best.
The week leading up to the marathon is especially difficult. My runs will be much shorter than I'm used to. I typically run 4-5 days per week, usually all but one run takes longer than one hour. In contrast, I only have 3 training runs this week and all are less than an hour.
The first time I ran 10 miles back in April, I felt like a rockstar. My final long training run on Saturday was 10 miles, and I wanted to keep going after 10. I love coming back from long runs each weekend feeling like I really pushed my limits and 10 miles just doesn't do it anymore.
Alas, I'll just save my energy for the marathon on Sunday.
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