One Week To Go
The second week of the taper went like this ...
Monday - Easyish 14k or so (1hr 15min)
Tuesday - 12k in total including efforts - 2 lots of '4 mins, 3 mins, 2 mins, 1 min' though I made the final 1 minute a 2 minute effort (cos that's what Pat would make us do). Finished off with 2 Lilyfield Rd reps.
Wednesday - 12k with JD, Ray and Karin. Pace felt easier than the 5:20s we were doing.
Thursday - 15 minutes of 30/30s. 10k incl warmup and warmdown.
Friday - Rest.
Saturday - CR 5k Challenge. I thought about pushing it on this one but decided on the morning just to aim for 22:30. Ended up with 22:28. It was sooooo windy, I doubt if I could have done much faster anyway. 10k all up.
Sunday - Rest.
Weekly total - 58k. The legs are starting to feel better with the reduced mileage.
I still haven't come up with a definite goal for the marathon. I'm thinking something in the 3:30s is doable. But which end of the 3:30s is the question.
Monday - Easyish 14k or so (1hr 15min)
Tuesday - 12k in total including efforts - 2 lots of '4 mins, 3 mins, 2 mins, 1 min' though I made the final 1 minute a 2 minute effort (cos that's what Pat would make us do). Finished off with 2 Lilyfield Rd reps.
Wednesday - 12k with JD, Ray and Karin. Pace felt easier than the 5:20s we were doing.
Thursday - 15 minutes of 30/30s. 10k incl warmup and warmdown.
Friday - Rest.
Saturday - CR 5k Challenge. I thought about pushing it on this one but decided on the morning just to aim for 22:30. Ended up with 22:28. It was sooooo windy, I doubt if I could have done much faster anyway. 10k all up.
Sunday - Rest.
Weekly total - 58k. The legs are starting to feel better with the reduced mileage.
I still haven't come up with a definite goal for the marathon. I'm thinking something in the 3:30s is doable. But which end of the 3:30s is the question.
posted by Tesso at 9:40 PM
13 Comments:
New faster course. 3:25 for you this time.Good luck.
You are in great shape Tesso so bottom end of the 3.30's!!
Have a great day tomorrow and remember cake is carbs - I'm guessing you are not doing a depletion diet so it will be good for you ;-)
Great tapering, glad it is all going so well.
superflake beat me to it ... I was going to say the 2:28 end of the 2:30s
Looks like you are tapering sensibly as well, which should help you out on the day.
58k! I've know people who run further than that in one race ;)
2:30s Steve! Have you been drinking craft beer again?
I predict a 3:31:30 gun time and a 3:29:59 chip time.
3:28 ...sorry!
With the wonderful training you have done and a rest this week I will be surprised if you take longer than 3:30.
You could try for 2:04:25.
Sunday weather is looking good: "Mostly cloudy, minimum 10, max 19". So long as there's no breeze that should be perfect...
All the best in Melbourne.
I'm hoping for a PB in my interstate running debut race.
Couldn't resist the opportunity to run onto the MCG!
Best of luck for the marathon Tess you are my hero
Best of luck with the marathon. I'm predicting 3:29 :-)
BTW I saw Clairie on the weekend & she is looking fantastic!
Sounds like you've been running all over Sydney lately. Hope you have a great time in Melbourne and run well.
I guess you have a few times in mind and as usual you won't complain because you usually enjoy your marathons, whatever the time.
But with such a good build up I reckon you can go where you haven't before and I dare not say the time for fear of jinxing it.
Hope everything comes together Tesso.
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