Week 7 DRHM Training - Taper Week

Taper Week - my favourite week of all the training weeks. Running is at a comfortable volume and the workouts are at a manageable intensity. Taper week is inserted into training plans to give your body a chance to heal & recover so it is ready when race day comes along.

Ran on Thursday and Saturday - a good 300m x 10 speed session in SDAT on Thursday with the Nitros and a solo 4k Tempo run on Saturday. I had a meet up with the group on Saturday morning which left no time for a long distance run. The Tempo run was fun. I spilit the distance into 1.5k x 2 which was run at a steady 6' something pace and the last kilometer was run at a faster pace of 5'30". The heart - it was ready to fall out!

My drill seargent & trainer, Dom had set out strength workouts on Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday which weren't as crazy intense as the previous week given that I was on taper-mode but was effective all the same. Everyday now I "flex" in front of the mirror imagining (hoping for) better definition in my muscular structure. :) :)

On an impulse I got myself a new pair of Reeboks. (It looked really cool, felt great and it was on Sale! Plus it goes great with my race-day outfit!). Broke it in on Sunday with a 12K run. Weather was brilliant. I had a nice and easy run at medium effort and finished the distance in 01:27. Shoe behaved well. 

In other headlines - I twisted my ankle (again!). It had barely healed from the injury back in April and I had another mishap on my Saturday run. The road was badly maintained & was all dug up and to avoid all the rubble on the side, I was running almost down the middle of the road (it was early and with hardly any traffic). I didn't see a small dent in my path and mistepped. Twiiiisssst! Same ankle, same point. Shook it off and continued on my way.  It hurts the same way as before - in an annoying but very manageable way. There is no swelling and possibly because I've been living with this injury for three months now, I guess I've just become used to it and am treating it like a mild irritant. 

We're in race week now and the intensity gets gentler. Have got emails & messages from the race organizers regarding bib collection and the race expo. Butterfly population in stomach: 1.