Let the Tapering Begin!
Yesterday was a rest day, I spent most of the day cleaning up my home office, answering numerous e-mails that my genealogy homepage generated, and just relaxing with my wife. My legs already feel mostly recovered from the 4-hour run on Saturday. I feel a little tiredness when I walk stairs, but otherwise they feel fine.
Tonight I want to go for a recovery run, probably my normal 14K/8.7M trail. Wednesday I plan on doing a tempo run with the running club, then maybe a shorter run on Thursday or Friday night.
On Sunday (27th) I have a half-marathon race in nearby Hambrucken, the town that had the tornado a few weeks back. I am going to do my best to break my personal record of 1:48:12 The way I have been training lately, I should be able to do it. So if you hear about another tornado in Hambrucken next weekend, don’t worry, it’s just Jack doing his thing ;-)
Comments
i am going to call you 'the tornado' for now on, jack. wasn't there a superhero from comics that went by that name? ;)
Posted by: matt | August 21, 2006 7:02 AM
hi jack, thanks for stopping by. silly me was so excited taking pictures with dear nephew that i did not think of having an ice cream cone until the truck was gone. i didn't feel like going on another run to catch up with it. :-)
good luck next sunday!
cheers,
~nattie.
Posted by: nattie | August 21, 2006 11:20 AM
I was going to call you the tornado, but I can see I completely missed my chance
Posted by: Thomas | August 21, 2006 3:34 PM
Welcome to taper time! Let the frantic behavior begin. Ok, everyone, keep Jack away from the weather channel. :)
Rest up and build strength, Jack. You will be great (as always!).
Posted by: Jon in Michigan | August 22, 2006 1:59 AM