Reverse taper

We are 7 days post Hartford Marathon. During race week, o tried to do a bunch of short duration intervals - both bike and run to maintain fitness, while dropping the overall volume to come into race day somewhat rested. It seemed to work.

So this week, I did the same type of program, but somewhat in reverse. I have been keeping an eye on training load and volume all week, and was feeling good enough for one of my key weekend workouts: 5 miles high zone 2, followed by mile-ish repeats in zone 4 with a 1 mile steady state cool down. It was really nice to have the company of the Brickyard runners along the way.  I also ran into a friend of mine that was also at Ironman Lake Placid out there, as well as Linda and Mary around 10.5 miles.

All seems in order, will proceed on with this weekend's training.

I know a number of triathletes that use paid training programs and coaches, but right now I am loving figuring this all out for myself...the charts and graphs make me look and feel like a mad scientist but it's real trip when I start to see improvements. 

With that in mind, almost done planning my 2013 training out. Good times ahead!

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