Swimming, Taper Plans, more Race Plans
Yesterday was a cold, rainy day so we decided to stay home and get a few things done around the house. At 5 p.m. my wife went upstairs to work on her Technical English homework, so I decided to go to the swimming pool. The pool ended up being really crowded, but I fought my way through 1000 meters of laps. In any case I worked off some of the mega-calories that I consumed this weekend. I’m going to have to cut way back with the eating when I start tapering.
Tapering on the Horizon
Speaking of tapering, I have just one more intensive week of training and then I’ll start tapering for my September 10th marathon. My last long run will be on Saturday morning. I haven’t decided whether to do another back-to-back run, or just one real long run. I guess I will see how the legs feel on Friday. I don’t think there is any real need to do a back-to-back long run this weekend, I’m only training for a marathon and a 50K, not a 50/100-miler.
The Rest of the Year
As I mentioned I have a marathon on September 10th. The week following this we will be on vacation in Toscana, Italy, but then it will be back to work training for my 50K that I will run on October 21st.
I also have several other shorter races on the calendar, I probably can’t do all of them (my wife would flip out), but I will surely try to do as many as possible:
Hambrucken Half-marathon – August 27
Pfalz Marathon (Pirmasens) – September 10
Kraichgau Half-marathon – September 24
Neudorf 10K Autumn Run – October 1
Rhine Half-marathon – October 3
Durlach 10K Town Run – October 7
Hardt Forest Run (10K) – October 15
Schwabischer Alb 50K – October 21
Neckargemund 11.8K Mountain Run – November 4
Karlsbad 10K Volks Run – November 11
Karlsruhe Palace 10K Run – November 19
Marsch 8.4K Cross Country Run – November 25
Bruchhausen Half-marathon – December 2
Rheinzabern 10K Run – December 17
South Pfalz 9.1K Cross Country Run – December 23
Forchheim 10K New Years Run – December 30
Most of these are within 30-40 minutes of my house - so I guess my old bones won’t be collecting any rust for the rest of the year!
Comments
You certainly have a lot of races to choose from which makes things much more fun!
I'm envious!
Sorry I haven't been coming around as often. I've been feeling like a dirtbag. :( I'm sure this time will pass.
Glad to know that you are doing well.
Posted by: carmen | August 14, 2006 8:31 AM
I'm thinking you'd better head to the shoe store now and stock up, Jack! That's a serious boatload of races. And Italy is a nice reward for a hard race. Do you speak Italian?
Posted by: Jon in Michigan | August 14, 2006 12:02 PM
oh my word! that's alot of racing. what fun!
Posted by: angie's pink fuzzy | August 14, 2006 8:22 PM
"only" a marathon and a 50K! Goodness.
I did a double take; I thought you were going to do all of those races.
Posted by: Juls | August 15, 2006 3:41 AM
That's alot of nearby races to choose from, that's cool!
Posted by: Kim | August 16, 2006 10:50 AM