6 miles. I don't get it, my legs feel horrible and stale, rusty and tired, dead and slow. Not good.
Monday, May 22, 2006
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- Name:Duncan Larkin
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6 Comments:
you know it's just your mind playing tricks on you.
You hardly need the advice, given your resume, but I'll say it anyway. Don't read too much in to how you are feeling, especially a couple of days into your taper and following a hard, fast effort. Your legs are all WTF? Where is the stress I was used to? right now. You'll feel all crap for another 2-3 days and then settle in to the taper.
You're gonna do great, kid.
Thanks Joe P. and Eric. I've never trained this way and never really tapered. This is a very strange feeling. The legs ache and are very, very heavy--almost like they are waking up after being hit with a stick for 3 months.
Do I smell the physical manifestations of taper madness? Perhaps a few MP miles 5 days and 4 days before the race amongst these easy tapering miles will make you feel a little more smooth? I think the taper is a terrible shock on the (physical and mental) body that used to working hard.
Perhaps some Mt Misery repeats to show your legs who's boss? Just kidding - knowing you, you will go for it! The taper is one big mind f#%$. Legs feel strange cause they're out of their routine, mind has a lot of free time to obsess over this, doubt creeps in ... Felt the same way before Boston & thought I was going to run something awful. You know how that turned out ... ran a 12 minute PR. You'll be cruising in a few days on fresh legs to a PR
You know, training is a complete mystery for the most of us. There are probably a handful of exceptions to this statement. I don't get why some days, we can go out and clock amazing times at what seems to be no effort at all while other days, we struggle to maintain snail's crawl. I'm not sure if I buy all of Lydiard. I think his "real" athletes trained much harder than his methods state (which might be watered down for the masses). I feel like I was progressing at a phenomenal rate when doing more track/anaerobic work (after a winter of base). This coordination and sharpening phase, I don't feel as fit as the previous phase so I wonder if I need to still do (once a week), a hard track interval session (8-10x800,12-20x400,5x1600 etc). Mainly doing a long run, a sharpener, one or two time trials, sprint speed work (drills) and then easy aerobic runs...no "intervals" per say. Another well known coach (in brittain anyway), Frank Horwell, advocates a lot of "race pace" work with a couple of paces above it and a couple of paces below race pace - to be rehearsed frequently - in order to vaccinate the body to deal with such paces...anyway, it's late, guess we'll just continue to run and hope to get "there" where ever that place lies...
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