The last 7 days I ended up doing an un-intentional tapering week. I discovered that doing two long runs for two consecutive weekends at marathon pace it is not in my legs and in my brain. During the second one after 13-14 miles I slowed down big time with my legs totally numb toward the end. On top of that the next few days I got sick and the rest of the week was stressfull due to a big deadline this coming wednesday. In spite of that I wanted to do another 13 miler last saturday at marathon pace thinking that I was completely recovered, but it didn't happen, after ten miles I was already exhausted and I stopped after 10 miles. I learned the lesson the hard way, too many miles too fast combined with stress at work means disaster. Now I am in real recovery phase, this week just a few slow miles with the goal to try to recover for sunday's race.
I think I got a little bit "overtrained" but I am still hopeful for sunday, otherwise, as usual, I will get what I can. I am keeping my "legs" crossed (not much running).
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