The Last Push: My 130-Mile Week

First, as always, a thanks to those who have contributed recently:
-Laura Peeling
-Roshini Prakash Nair
-Kerry Pace

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Below is my total for my final hard week before I start tapering.

Week of
		18-Jan
SUN	am	0
	pm	0
MON	am	14.5
	pm	0
TUE	am	14.5
	pm	0
WED	am	14.5
	pm	4.5
THU	am	36
	pm	12.5
FRI	am	12.5
	pm	0
SAT	am	0
	pm	21
		130

Total over 6 days: 130 miles. That's more than a 20-mile per day average. It certainly has not been an easy week to get mileage in, especially with all the political hoopla in D.C. this week. The culmination, of course, was the 61 miles I did in a 24-hour period over Thursday-Friday, especially after doing 19 total on Wednesday. Follow that up with a 21-mile run home from Ft. Belvoir on Saturday after a 10-hour day of walking STX lanes at our ROTC FTX in pure darkness, and I think it was a pretty productive week.

Now starts the hard part for me though. Now comes the taper. My tapering plan is to do 70 miles this week, 50 miles the next, and less than 20 leading up to the actual race on February 14. This is the hardest part of training for me. The waiting. The inability to do anything more productive. All I can do now is try to rest up, sleep well, eat well, and focus. Sounds easy, but it's harder than you might think. To top it off, there are less than 18 days left until the actual race! Yikes! We'll see how it goes though.


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