Taper Time!

Sunday:  5 miles
Monday:  20 miles
Wednesday:  4 miles
Friday:  8 miles
Saturday:  4 miles
Monday:  10 miles
Tuesday:  5 miles
Wednesday:  5 miles
Friday:  20 miles

Two Week Total:  76 miles

The second 20-miler was another Tour de Twinsburg on a very warm day.  I was out for 3:17 which is well over marathon pace but I am not going to freak out. Did you hear that?  Not. Freaking. Out.   It was super warm and I struggled with a very negative internal voice.  Thus, the run became more of a mental training session despite fried legs and sore feet.  No matter how you slice a marathon there will always be a rough patch.  Typically this will fall in the last 6 miles but I fell apart once at mile 11 (Charlottesville Marathon) and once at mile 15 (San Diego).  You better know how to silence your brain if you have to gut out 2 or 3 hours of agony in the second half of a marathon!

So now it's taper time.  I am not working much so it should be a productive couple of weeks.  At least, that's what I'm telling myself.  Time to bring back the yoga that has been sadly missing in my life.  I also want to revisit my 5-lb weights and get some strength back.

Abby has improved her 2-mile cross country time to 14:17!  This weekend is the big Woodridge Meet at Pine Hollow (also known locally as the Sound of Music hill).  It will not be a fast time but that place is truly magical and I hope she has a great day. 

Gina is swim, swim, swimming and realizing that high school swim season is just around the corner.  We are not looking forward to the oh-dark-thirty alarm for the 5:30am swim practice. 

Fall seems to have safely arrived after all that scorching heat of September.  I wish it would last until April!