Week Ending May 14, 2011

I purposely took it a bit easier this week to taper for my race on Sunday (Colfax Half Marathon). This is not an important race, so I did not completely taper, but I kept my miles under 90 this week. Sunday was a moderate run of 10 miles. Monday was an easy 6. Tuesday was a workout in the morning (6x1200) and an easy recovery in the afternoon. Wednesday was another double: easy in the morning, long run in the afternoon of 16 miles. It had been a pretty easy week so far and I planned to run around 80-ish miles, so I still had quite a few miles to run over the next three days before the race. Like I said, this was not a true taper week. Thursday was a moderate run and Friday was another double of 5 and 10. Saturday I decided to do an easy workout. I wanted to get my legs spinning hard, but not too hard. I believe back-to-back workouts help in the long run, so if I wanted to run well at the mountain races in June, I decided to do an easy workout the day before my race. I ran 3 800s and 2 600s. Not bad. 87 miles for the week.