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
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