A quick update before I take off for the day. It’s a good stopping point in my workload for the day I think…
Rest of Memorial Weekend was pretty relaxed after the race. Was in Mankato with friends on Saturday night and had a couple of drinks and stayed over, then came back Sunday and spent it at Calhoun reading and trying to get some color, then kind of cleaned and relaxed on Sunday night, although the place still needs work!! Monday I had gone for a run in the AM, quite warm even at 9:30, should’ve gotten up earlier!! Was dripping sweat early on and didn’t stop till I got in the shower…gross. I then ended up meeting a friend to shop, it was warm and both of us were needing to look a bit, we went to the mall (not someplace I go often) and I found a few work things and some out of work things for pretty good prices so that was nice…I had missed seeing season finale of ER and she had it recorded so we then decided to go grill at her place (after a Blizzard earlier at the mall) that evening with her boyfriend…we had burgers and asparagus and yummy potatoes as we refer to them, all on the grill then kind of vegged and I went home to bed.
It’s taper time now of course and I was going to do a light speed workout yesterday but decided instead to sleep in and then after work spent more time at Calhoun (plans are to go there again today) and got home to a package from a friend but before opening it I went for a light tempo run…at least that was the plan. 6 miles, 1 mile warm up and 1 mile cool done, marathon pace (projecting around 8:45) or a bit better for the rest of the run, well, first mile was an easy 9:30 warm up, 2nd mile, 7:35…oops…8:20, 8:19 and 7:55 followed…last mile trying to slow down and cool down was an easy 8:38 with an overall pace of 8:21…oops…oh well. I just did what was feeling good and I definitely could’ve gone further and faster, so it was a nice little workout. Today I did 3 this am and will do an easy 3-4 tonight most likely and did some light strength training, I’ll do two more sessions this week of 2 sets, then next week only 2 days and 1 set then nothing week before the marathon.
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Enjoy the taper. I think you will go easily under 4 hrs (weather permitting) for your marathon. You have trained well, now just rest and get ready.
You are doing awesome!
That's the problem...trying to force the rest!! One week I can do, but 2 more weeks...
Actually I don't even think weather will be a factor in going under 4, it's just a matter of how much under 4 can I go!! The pace I was on for the 30K was feeling really easy and felt really good up till about 10/10:15 when it was really getting warm and that was under 4 hour pace...I just need to really mentally focus and work on eating well!!
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