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Offline Virginia Plain

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« on: April 25, 2016, 02:25:58 PM »
What do you guys do the week before a marathon?  What kind of exercise/physical activity do you do?
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Re: taper
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2016, 02:38:39 PM »
exactly what Hal told me to do

3 m run
4x400
2 m run
rest   
rest   
2 m run   
marathon
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Re: taper
« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2016, 02:44:20 PM »
Quote from: mangled mouth on April 25, 2016, 02:38:39 PM
exactly what Hal told me to do

3 m run
4x400
2 m run
rest   
rest   
2 m run   
marathon


Nope.  I'm not running.  I never run the week before a long race, marathon, 1/2, 10 miler, I don't care how long.  No running for me.
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Re: taper
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2016, 03:04:14 PM »
full-body whining.  there's heaving from chair to chair involved. 
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Offline Fast Eddie

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Re: taper
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2016, 07:01:54 PM »
Saturday - last semi long run of 16K
Sunday - rest
Monday - 8K
Tuesday - rest
Wednesday - 5K
Thursday - rest
Friday - rest (maybe easy 3K if I didn't spend a lot of time walking around the expo)
Saturday - rest
Sunday - RACE DAY!
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Offline Richard21142

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Re: taper
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2016, 07:44:11 PM »
This is what I did the week before my first marathon:

Monday: 13 miles
Tuesday: 6 miles in a hail storm
Wednesday: 10 miles - 4 in the morning and 6 in the afternoon
Thursday: 12.1 miles - 6.1 in the morning and 6 in the afternoon
Friday: 4 miles with 2 x 440 fast
Saturday: 4 miles
Sunday: Marathon in snow storm - 2:59.06  58th out of 500
« Last Edit: April 26, 2016, 12:24:22 PM by Richard21142 »
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Re: taper
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2016, 09:53:26 PM »
Eat pretzels and fret.

This is what I'm doing:

M-4
T-easy row
W-4
T-easy bike
F-total rest
S-go!
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Re: taper
« Reply #7 on: April 26, 2016, 04:47:46 PM »
I never like a rest day before any race. Just a 2 mile run, otherwise I tend to feel sluggish. This is apparent on my training runs after a rest day - it's always 2 days later that I run the best.
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Re: taper
« Reply #8 on: April 26, 2016, 09:09:33 PM »
I'll sympathy :pissed: and :panic:


(I don't enter events)

Good luck, racers!

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Re: taper
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2016, 08:09:47 PM »
I eat...I get angry...
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Re: taper
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2016, 01:43:53 AM »
Update, yo!!
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Offline Ice Cream

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Re: taper
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2016, 06:55:56 AM »
I do a ten minute run the day before the race.
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Offline Virginia Plain

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Re: taper
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2016, 08:48:39 AM »
Quote from: Fionn mac Cumhail on April 30, 2016, 01:43:53 AM
Update, yo!!

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I LOVED it!  I ran terrible, it was god awful hilly, insanely over crowded but I loved it :D  Pittsburgh is a great city to run in. 
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Re: taper
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2016, 11:12:24 PM »
First
Mon-4.97 34:40 (I like to so something fast on the track a 6-8 days before)
Tue-6
Wed-5
Thur-0
Fri-2
Sat-0
Sun 3:21:45 Ocean State
Mon-2
Tue-went to sleep at 7:30 PM   :sleep:

Fastest:
Sat- 2 in 12:12
Sun-11.5
Mon-7.75
Tue-7.74
Wed-8
Thur-5.5
Fri-Drove from Burlington VT to Newport RI
Sat-2
Sun-3:11:04 Ocean State
Mon-2
Tue-3
Wed-4
Thur-0

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