taper time

While my left lower leg isn't 100% recovered the difference between 2 weekends ago and this past week is huge. I guess RICE and some athletic taping really does work ;) Usually I'm not very good about ice, or generally taking care of my injuries, but I freaked myself out over this one and have been good about icing and elevating while catching up on some favorite shows. I hit all my scheduled miles last week that included a very tough 10 miles with 4 x 1200 meters at my 5K (puke threshold reached) and a nearly enjoyable 20 miles (a slow 20 that I really didn't want to do at all but then after 4 miles found myself really enjoying the distance). So a high of 52 miles last week with little to absolutely no leg pain during the runs! Yea! So I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing and hope it takes me through to May 16th.

And now it is time to TAPER!

I'll try to keep the crazy taper thoughts to a minimum around here. Maybe work will continue to stress me out so I don't have much time for the taper craziness. Not that I want work to stress me out (even though that's all it seems to be able to do as of late) but it may help in this instance.