• The usual taper effort •
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This marathon-training cycle has been unusual for me (04’14’U: Jersey City Marathon). The biggest part of “unusual” is that I’ve had 20-mile-range runs in my back pocket for 4 months beginning November: 2 18-22’s per each.
As far as distance conditioning is concerned—even with a standard 14-mile Shawmont Avenue route as the baseline long run—I’m in a very different place (“Thankful for Shawmont 14-mile Runs”). Like many other marathon trainers, I’d usually otherwise be building up both speed and distance at the same time. So this cycle the bulk of my training effort has instead been speed work and resting from the distance work (“Kelly or Be Killed”).
With taper time officially started, all I have to do is manage the anxiety over how well I balanced all 3—distance, speed, and rest. Now, it’s all become very usual.
-CtCloser (Calvinthe) “Negative Split or Positive Splat” #dothedue
FINE PRINT ¶Text by Calvin Wang (Wäng), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. ¶Cross-published: Facebook Shawmont Running Club (ZY Weekly Newsletter 3/30/24), Shawmont Running Club website, Ruminations by CtCloser. ¶This website posting: Rumination with added caption.
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