Tapering!
Tuesday night we had the official TNT Westchester send-off. We received our race day itinerary, TNT singlets, and lots of information about race weekend. After the preliminaries, Coach Ross took the podium. He started out by talking about cookies. "If you had a choice, would you rather have a cookie that is slightly undercooked, nice and gooey, or one that has been left in the oven too long and is crunchy and stale?"He was speaking of tapering, a magical word we've been waiting to hear since May 15. For the next two weeks (or at this point, 9 days!) we're supposed to take it easy with training. No more long runs. The theory is that anything that's going to help you athletically takes 2 weeks, so at this point it's too late to affect much change anyway.
In the interest of not burning my cookies, I've taken it really easy this week. No training Monday or Tuesday. And then, no training Wednesday - I skipped both the run and swim GTS in favour of doing laundry and going to bed early.
This morning I did a short run in Prospect Park. I plan to swim tomorrow morning, and take the afternoon off work to laze around.
Remember kids: Don't be a burned cookie.
1 Comments:
Doesn't it feel great to be able to skip a practice and not feel guilty? My favorite thing about tapering was doing these "easy" workouts that two months before were really, really hard (what? run four miles?). Pat yourself on the back for how far you've come!
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