Why do I never feel quite right during a taper? I know this is not uncommon but I wonder how much is physical and how much is mental?
Today I ran 4 miles at a 6:32 average pace. 6:42, 6:34, 6:36, 6:15 splits. 160 HR for most of the last 3 miles. A hard but not excessively hard effort. I never felt truly comfortable during any of this run, but I wasn't really hurting that badly either. I did turn my brain off from about the 2.5 to 2.75 point but besides that 1/4 mile I didn't necessary ever feel like I hit a rhythm. Still it was a solid run, at a solid pace, and it didn't take much out of me. Just the kind of short, intense effort I need to try to keep me sharp.
Not that 4 miles at 6:32 pace should be discounted. This is still one of the fastest 4 mile runs I've ever done. This is still faster than my 5K race pace from 2 years ago.
Might do a very short amount of speedwork tomorrow and that should be about the end of anything intense... legs mostly feel okay. Just a bit of tightness in my right ITB and right foot; been foam rolling the IT band and using the golf ball on the foot to counter and I think that should do the trick.
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