Road to Joy

Easy miles in the late evening and I have to run in the early morning tomorrow.  Hopefully that all goes ok.  I was looking over how I trained for my last marathon earlier today to see how I did the taper.  And it completely made me freak out.  It looks like I trained much harder and better last time.   

Anyhow...I'm trying to stomp out the panic and focus on what I can do now.  I was going to start pulling back in my training this week and not do any more long runs but I've changed my mind.  I'm going to try to keep my miles up for a couple of more weeks.  We'll see how it goes and what my legs think.

2 mile warm-up and cool-down, 6x800 hills (400 up, 400 down) with 400 easy between.  2x800 flat with 400 between.

Again, without a watch I'm not positive about distances.  I think the hill might have been .3 up - but regardless I did somewhere between 10 and 11 I think.  My legs are feeling a little better all the time.  Going faster or working hard helps - as much as I dread doing either before the workout starts.  Speed/strength workouts are also helping me over a feeling of boredom that is starting to creep into my training too.

Nothing too exciting about this one.  Another day, another mile...or two.

1.5 mile warm-up and cool-down, 4x1 mile, 2x800.

It felt like it took me the whole 4x1 mile set to warm-up and then the 2x800 felt a little faster on my legs.  I'm a bit sore now that it has been a couple of hours.  I'll run 20 on Saturday and then I'll do the same speed work next week that I did this week with a lower Saturday run.  I'll use the last couple of weeks before the marathon to really bring miles down and hopefully I'll feel more quick in the legs.

I woke up early to having the runs instead of doing a run.  I wanted to do my last 20 miler but I was skunked.  It was a busy day with not a lot of flexibility to add a run later, but I did manage to sneak in 10.  Who knows, maybe its a good thing that I couldn't run 20 - maybe it was my bowels giving my legs just what they needed.