Marathon day is one week from today, and taper madness is setting in hard. I feel “puffy.” I feel eight hundred little niggles that I’m SURE will be an injury (and that go away in a second, because they’re imaginary anyway). I’m obsessively checking the weather (right now, it looks perfect for race day. And I really hope I didn’t just jinx it…). Here’s how the training portion of my taper madness went this week:
Monday:
5 miles easy, plus core work
Tuesday:
6 miles of fartleks, then some upper-body and core strength work. Leg work is done until post-marathon.
Wednesday:
5.1 easy miles, then core. I took a selfie because I was trying to show off my Skirt Sports gear for the giveaway (which you should enter if you haven’t!). I ended up having to take a mirror picture instead, but you can’t have a training recap without awkward selfies, right?
Confession: I tried for an embarrassingly long time to take a cool jumping picture like Christy always has, but I couldn’t time it right. I had more than one that looked like I was about to use the bathroom, and so I gave up.
Thursday:
3 x 2000m tempo intervals with 400m recoveries. With warm-up and cool-down, a total of 7 miles.
Friday:
Since I was moving my long run to Sunday, I took Friday off from running. I did 45 minutes of yoga and called it good.
Saturday:
6.2 easy miles and a quick core workout. I saw a post on Instagram the other day that said, “Never trust a girl who wears pink workout gear.” I thought that was stupid, so I posted this post-run shot as my rebuttal.
Hashtag wearallthepink
Sunday:
Thunderstorms kept me up most of the night and were still going strong in the morning. I don’t do lightning (living is my favorite), so I took to the treadmill for my last “long” run: 12 miles with the last 6 progressively faster.
I should’ve waited a few hours; it rained all day, but the lightning stopped not long after I finished running. Oh well. At least it was only 12 and not a long-long run.
Total: 41.3 miles.
And now, I enter the hardest (mentally) week of marathon training: race week. Let the antsyness begin!
How do you deal with taper madness?
What’s your reaction to thunderstorms? I hate them. Hate, hate, hate.
Rural Running Redhead 
Ahhh taper madness! I hope your nerves will be calm soon! Can’t wait to read your recap!!!! You are going to ROCK IT!!! Good luck!! And congrats on an awesome cycle of training! 🙂
Great to see you on Saturday, it meant the world to Jared & Rita & Paige that you came! Sorry you go through this “taper madness”. Don’t let it control you…you’ve done awesome on your training and given it your all. I know you will do great! We will be thinking of you! Hate to tell you though, I LOVE thunderstorms (if I’m safe inside :))
I’m really excited for you and to see how you do. Have a good last week of taper.
Thanks!
I’m so excited for your marathon! I love following others’ training plans. 🙂 I need to enter your giveaway!!
Yes, enter! And thanks. 🙂
I used to love thunderstorms, but now I despise them because they turn my dog into a trembling, hot mess, poor guy. Good luck with taper madness!
All the rain made for a cozy date with cups of tea and conversation!
I hope you have a great race day! I was worried about some knee niggles and the rain before I ran my 50 mile race last weekend, but I didn’t have any knee probs and running through the thunderstorm was sort of a good distraction!
I loved your race recap. How’s recovery?