The Beautiful Taper
Let me use this space to write about the beauty of a taper. Is it beautiful because you are fit and can actually do a taper? Is it beautiful because 6 by 1000m gives way to 8 by 400m? Is it beautiful because doubles morph into singles? There are many more questions about why the mystical taper is so beautiful, but not enough room on this page. The energy is just all bottled up and the only thing I want to do is race. The key to the next few days is going to be keeping it bottled up and letting it out at the right time to maximize time at the 4th of July Road Race. Only 6 more days and the perfect 10 day taper will be complete. Actually, it would take a victory to make it perfect and that is certainly not an easy feat. Everything will have to go just right for that to happen. Here's hoping everything goes just right.
The Carrara Taper is going quite well. Last night was a great track workout with a new training partner and some 400m repeats 67-68 target with 90 seconds rest. There were 5 @ 67, 2 @ 68, and 1 @ 64 due to the youthful exuberance of the new guy in the spikes. Those things will happen and to tell you the truth they all could have been much faster. It felt great last night even with the wind.
Today, the rain returned. Which begs the question, if it has been raining for 2 months and then you have two days of no rain, was it ever gone? With any luck the rain will be taking its leave for the holiday weekend and we will be dry.
Lunchtime run in the rain with Sergeant Lutz and the pace was pretty decent all things considered. No lifting for me thank you very much. That is a non-taper exercise of which I will have no part in. I will be doing the abs still but those are second nature by now.
Ok, christy is at class tonight and I have to figure out what to make for dinner.
Swedish Fish, Pretzels, or Pasta. Tough choice as always.
Thank you and good night.