Second Wind

Rest.

Took it nice and easy this morning.  Legs felt really heavy today and I am so glad we are finally into the taper weeks because I am starting to feel the whole body fatigue.  Less sleep today probably didn't help as I was up at 3:45 (half hour early) so I could get in my run and make to parents day for early morning seminary.  Looks like my son Michael has a great teacher and will hopefully have a really good year in seminary.  I think I have finally worked out my plan for the taper and it will look alot like what I have done for the past three weeks only with less miles.  Tuesday and Thursday will be hills and marathon/tempo miles with the other days as slower/recovery days with the usual, albiet shorter, long run on Saturday.  This Saturday I will do 15 and the following Saturday I will do 12.

As a side note.  I have been taking a prescription anti-inflammatory for the last 30 days which was for my foot problem that I was having at the time.  I took my last dose yesterday and hope to not need anymore anti-inflammatories until after SGM.  I have noticed today that the aches and pains are a little more noticable.  I guess the drugs were doing their job and now I get to suffer a bit during the taper.  Hopefully the reduced mileage and intensity will be enough to let the aches and pains heal on their own.  Time will tell.  Even though I seemed to have my taper all planned out by day, I am still going to play it by feel and see what the body will give me each day.  At this point there is no need to push it beyond the limits because the bulk of the trianing is done.

Time:  1:02:29  8:56/mile

NB768 265.28 NB768 (new) 64.0  Saucony A2 11.9

Decided against the hill run today.  Meg's knee was bothering her a bit and I still have a few lingering aches and pains that I didn't want to irritate any further so we decided to stay on flat ground and just run a moderate pace run today.  We had a couple miles in her marathon pace range of 8:00/mile and the rest were pretty close to that.  My aches are in my left quad and hamstring.  I think they are related to my lower back issues and should clear up with the reduced mileage......hopefully.  Temperature was a nice 72 degrees this morning.  We are starting to come into the nicest part of the year in Vegas for running and outdoor activities.  It's still in the high 90's during the heat of the day but at least it is cooling off at night.  Couple more weeks and it will be simply perfect.

Time:  49:15  8:12/mile

 NB768 271.28 NB768 (new) 64.0  Saucony A2 11.9

Just another fairly easy run today.  Until the body starts feeling really good again I am going to keep the pace on the moderate to slow side.  I did start feeling pretty good today around mile 5 to the end.  I think overall my aches and pains have diminished a bit since yesterday so hopefully that continues.  Ran in the newer shoes today so maybe that helped as well.  I have to go to scout camp again this weekend so I don't know when I'll get my long run in unless I go in the evening when it's really warm.  May end up just skipping it or running something shorter, probably wouldn't hurt much at this point.

Time:  59:57  8:34/mile

NB768 271.28 NB768 (new) 71.0  Saucony A2 11.9

I'm starting to sound like a broken record, same course, same pace, still a little achey.  My foot that was hurting from a month or so ago is flaring back up a little bit so I started in on the anti inflammatories again to try and calm it down.  Felt okay for today's run but I will be icing it and taking it easy for the next couple of days, no sense pushing it at this point.

Time:  51:03  8:30/mile

NB768 277.28 NB768 (new) 71.0  Saucony A2 11.9

Woke up late and did what I could.  Probably a good thing I am taking it a little easier to give the foot a break.  Didn't even have time to stretch just went out and ran some really easy miles.  May try to get a few tomorrow evening after I get back from 11-year old scout camp.  Fun, fun....

Time:  26:40  8:53/mile

NB768 280.28 NB768 (new) 71.0  Saucony A2 11.9

Got home from the scout cam dead tired and decided I didn't want to turn in a zero mileage day so went out for a night time run right before bed.  Just took it easy and tried to stay awake.

Time:  26:27  8:49/mile

NB768 283.28 NB768 (new) 71.0  Saucony A2 11.9