10 miles out and back from home. 1:39:27 9:57 ave pace. This has got to be my slowest run ever. My only goal today was to run 10 miles and get my weekly total to 100. I knew I was going to go slow, but this is way slow and I kept getting slower with every mile. Coming back I was faced with a stiff headwind. I did not have the strength or desire to fight the wind, I gave up and just shuffled along. This concludes my back to back 100 mile weeks, I am very tired right now. I received my Boston Marathon bib number in the mail yesterday. Number 10748, that's me! I will be at the front of the 2nd wave (9000 to 18000). For the first time there will be three waves instead of two. I am getting extremely excited and I feel good about my training. My A, B and C goals are 3:10, 3:15 and 3:20. 3 weeks to the race, my taper starts now. This next week will be more of a mental taper with mileage of about 80, not sure what I will do the next two weeks after that. Last year I still logged some decent miles and felt like it was the perfect taper so I'll look back to last year and do something similar. For now, no more long runs or races, just miles of fun running, maybe few marathon goal pace miles here and there. | 