The Big Day

I can't believe that tomorrow is the marathon. Holy cow.

Last Long Run - 8 miles

Can I really call 8 miles a long run at this point? I don't think so, but it was on the schedule and tapering is feeling good. Saturday morning I ran 8 miles and my legs felt good.

I only have 3 more runs left until the marathon. Yes I am FREAKING out a little but as I look at the training program I've followed the program and done the work so now it's time to run the race and be done with this. I'm so glad that I'm still injury free at this point and I'm going to be careful to not hurt myself this week and try to stay healthy by eating good, drinking lots of water and going to bed a little earlier every night.

Catch Up

Saturday - 12 miles. As crazy as it sounds to me this was a pretty easy distance by this point in the training program. It was nice to only have to fill up my fuel belt once and not be sore after a run. I didn't even do an ice bath and felt fine...this taper stuff is feeling good :)

Monday - Easy run. I ran 3.5 miles after sleeping in since it was Labor Day. I ran around an 8:45 average pace.

Tuesday - Spin.

Wednesday - Tempo run. We did 5 miles total with 3 tempo in the middle. The training said to run it at 8:25 and we did it at 8:13. I felt pretty good during the run.

Thursday - Spin.

Friday - Spin.

Saturday I have my last "long run" until the race - 8 miles.

Speed Work - 7 miles

Today's workout kicked my freakin' butt. Seriously, I was dying during it and still am. We did intervals today 4 x 1600 at 7:57 pace. We've done this one before and it was hard but we still managed to go faster than we were supposed to and felt good once it was done. I'm not sure if it is the lack of sleep I got earlier this week (thanks to work and kids) or the fact that my body is just tired at this point in the training.

We did our warm up and it felt just like always the first speed mile was ok we ended up right at 8:01 (fine by me) then recovered for a half mile. Second interval was killer and ended on an uphill (ugh) but we still finished it at 7:58. Third interval was right on target at 7:57, although we were faster than that until the slight uphill at the end of that one too. Then the fourth was just KILLER I had no energy left in me and my legs felt sooooo heavy. Of course we still ran it and were doing pretty good until Lola (Traci's dog) got caught on a mailbox then chased 2 bunnies which threw us off a little but we still managed to finish the mile in 8:10 so I am perfectly happy with the workout.

The hard part is just how tired I am right now. I didn't have much steam before I got up this morning and now I'm completely dragging. I got a diet coke was too early this morning and ate a huge breakfast of french toast so hopefully I'll feel better soon. :)