This week I was supposed to run less than last week, which is a scary and unintuitive thing to do when you’re trying to build up mileage.
Tapering is about bolstering leg muscle power and blood content and otherwise revitalizing yourself for next week’s big run. The two weeks before the marathon, in fact, the longest recommended runs are 12 and 8 miles.
Yikes.
But taper I did.
And the upshot is realizing that 7 and 10 mile jaunts no longer freak me out.
Seven, dare I say, has become a walk in the park.
It’s all a matter of perspective, isn’t it?
Not unlike the moon that looked so momentuous to us just a couple of days ago
and is now dwindling in our eyes and judgement.
Mileage for the week: 24 miles
Longest run: 10
Grand total since I started training: 169
Quote for the week:
As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full. — Nathaniel LeTonnerre
Liz! You are amazing.
This comment is hardly profound, but have you seen “Run, Fat Boy, Run” with Simon Pegg? Not his funniest movie, but it’s about marathons nonetheless, and he makes me laugh. And it at least has a very nice no-one’s-perfect vibe we all need to hear every now and then.
Congrats on your 7 to 10 mile milestone! That’s awesome.
Jules
7-Imp