Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Tapering is Harder than Running

While I'm more than two weeks away from the big race, my race plan calls for me to begin reducing milage. I'm going crazy only running 35-40 miles a week ("only"). But after doing 50-mile weeks, I feel as though I'm not running at all now. Don't tell Jack Daniels (my coach on the page) that I'm cheating, running more than I should. My excuse: I can't cross-train because I don't belong to a gym. I am, however, doing a little more yoga than usual.

Yesterday's workout:
3 miles
3 x (12 push-ups, 15 curls, 12 shoulder raises, 12 squats)
150 crunches
back exercises

Today's workout:
20 minutes easy
15 minutes at tempo pace
20 minutes easy
15 minutes at tempo pace
2 miles easy

1 comment:

chia said...

I don't really need to taper that much do I?

March-1 is my last long run (doing 10-12, whatever, not really picky) and I'm only scheduled for 4-7 milers until March-8. I have some short runs the week prior that I'm planning on then four rest days before the 1/2... sound alright to you?