From training, anyway. I did work, but only 9 - noon.
I'm glad I'm not training today. I'm tired. My quads are sore. The last 2 days (long bike followed the next day by 20-mile bike and 13-mile run) were my last hurrah before officially tapering. I'm glad. I'm ready for a break.
And already I'm getting taperitis: GACK, my quads are sore after running only 13 miles? A marathon is twice that far!! Well, but I ran the 13 miles after biking 20. H*ll, I'll be running a marathon after biking 112!!! Well, but I'd biked 67 miles the day before. So??? I'll be biking 112!!! After swimming 2-and-a-half miles!!!
I can't do this!!! See, my quads are sore after that little thing I did!! I'll never make it!!
Except, I already made it, last year. And I made the swim and the bike, just last week. And I've run 20 marathons. Or 21. I forget. I'm losing count. It doesn't matter. It shows I can do it. I just need to work up, mostly mentally, to doing it again.
That's what tapering is for, to let my body heal from training, stronger than before, so I can tear it to pieces again on the Ironman course.
~Sigh~
4 comments:
I'm really proud of you grandma. Keep up the training. You only live one life, and I can only aspire to be as physical as you are when I'm your age.
Press on with your bad self!!
Eddie
You will make it...like you said, you did before and the race will pull you along!
This is so exciting to follow- I wish I was just going to watch all you Iron-people!
Tapers always make me more sore than I am when I am doing high mileage for some quirky reason!
Good luck, Ellie! I know you can do it. You know you can do it.
Looking forward to hearing about it.
U did 21 marathon...right..once u go up that high...it is so easy to lose count.
U are ready.
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