Taper week

Thu PM: 1700m swim - slow and steady
Fri PM: 7 * 1K intervals avge 4:45.
Sat AM: 35K Ride @ 25kph
Sun PM: 6.5K Tempo run.
Tue AM: 7.5K Tempo run
Wed AM: 7.5K @ 5:50 pace.

We are well into taper now. The Eaglehawk half marathon is this weekend and I have decided I have ho hope of hitting my initial target of 1:50, so I am setting a new target of 1:55, which would still be a PB of 30 seconds.

On Friday I thought I might have a chance, I ran 7 1K intervals which were paced poorly - I started with 2 4:30's and slowed from there, but only to a final effort of 4:50, so I thought I might be starting to get my Mojo back. I was completely stuffed by the end of this session.

I had a decent ride on Saturday morning: 3 laps of my 10K Homebush loop and a 5K loop through the all of the stadia. It felt good.

Sunday I did a lot of walking. 90 minutes in the Blue Mountains for the Walk Against Want, and then half an hour merrily walking over to watch the mighty Rabbitohs take on the Roosters at Telstra, followed by a grumpy trudge back home afterwards. It's going to be a long year for we Rabbitoh fans.

I decided to throw in a little tempo run in the afternoon - 2K warmup, 3K hard, 1.5K cooldown. I could only manage about 5:20 in the "hard" bits.

Circumstances dictated a rest day on Monday, so I got out for another 7.5K tempo run on Tuesday, this time with a 4K hard section. Similar result - my cardio system just isn't up to 5:12 Ks at the moment.

This morning I got out for another 7.5K run (OK, I admit it - there is a nice little 7.5K loop near DJ's place), which was just a stock standard long run pace run. four hours later I still feel a bit wiped out, so things are not as they should be.

I'll have to take it pretty easy for the rest of the week and make sure I'mm fully rested for Sunday. Lots of vegies before then, and we'll see how we go.