This morning I ran a nice 12 miles as we tapper heading into the Mountains2Beach Marathon. The race is in 2 weeks! Wow. Hopefully this is the last time we have to get up at 5:30 in the morning for a run.
The taper seems to come at just the right time in the training schedule. I know your body needs to recover from the hard work you put it through with the 18, 19, 20 mile runs but I think it is good mentally as well. I am perhaps mentally tired after long as I am physically and so it was nice running a "shorter" distance for a change.
It's interesting how training for a marathon changes your perspective on what a long distance is. I used to think 10 miles for training and a half marathon were long distances and now they don't seem so bad.
The only thing that really slowed me down was I got hungry right around mile 10 and so I snacked on a Larabar. I'm very happy with the 10:44/mile pace I ran, even with the temps starting to rise here in Texas.
No comments:
Post a Comment