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Taper Time + Week 14 Recap

April 11, 2011 by Kristy 6 Comments

4/11/11

7 miles easy

1:06

9:26 avg pace

I’m officially tapering…the hard work is done; now it’s time to rest and prepare for the big race.  I’m aiming to keep my overall mileage in the low 30s this week and the mid-20s next week, since my training cycle stressed low mileage.  Unfortunately, I still have 2 speed workouts to do 🙁

This Sunday I’ll be running the Penn Relays Distance Classic 20K (about 12.4 miles).  I won’t be racing it though.  I’m using it as a goal marathon pace run, which is exactly what my training plan calls for anyway.  I love when it all comes together!

Week 14 Recap of NJ Marathon training:
MON:  rest
TUE:  8 tempo
WED:  7 easy
THU:  rest
FRI:  6 easy
SAT:  22 looong
SUN:  rest

43 miles for the week with no speed work.  My legs were more sore than I thought they would be after the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler.  I’m glad I took another easy day so I could get in a good 22-miler!  Missing too?  Yoga.  I was leery of taking a class this week since I tweaked something in last Friday’s class.  Usually I leave yoga feeling better but not that time.  I was worried it would affect my race last week, but I was OK.

I’m going to show all of you just how weird I am…every time I say “taper time” I think of MC Hammer’s song “U Can’t Touch This”.  You know…”stop, hammer time” kinda sounds like “stop, taper time?”  Riiiight?  Well if you never thought of it before, I bet you will now!

We saw this sign in Australia (if you look closely it says hammer time). I thought it was hysterical...and how appropriate?!

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cherry Blossom 10-miler, FIRST training plan, NJ Marathon, Penn Relays Distance Classic, taper

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  1. Kara says

    April 11, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Now I will always think of MC Hammer when I taper 🙂

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  2. Alyssa says

    April 11, 2011 at 7:52 am

    I am totally going to go to that song now and sing it for the last mile of my last long run. Excellent plan.

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  3. Beth says

    April 11, 2011 at 10:22 am

    Nice week, especially that last 22 miler! Keep the quality workouts coming and you are going to rock the marathon!

    Can’t touch this 🙂

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  4. Running Girl says

    April 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Great work on the runs. You’re going to be golden for the marathon.

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  5. Julia says

    April 11, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    way to go on your run!! you totally earned this taper and are going to ROCK your marathon. also LOVE that you think about MC hammer. oh man. I need to listen to that song…haha.

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  6. Briana says

    April 12, 2011 at 7:26 am

    Love the ‘taper song.’ I used to be a big Hammer fan back in the day.

    Taper weeks were always hard for me. I always WANTED to do more running or run faster even though I knew it wasn’t helping my training.

    Yoga is about the only thing I’m doing right now. Boo. My knee is still a little ‘off!’ Living room yoga + foam rolling = good times.

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