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5/5/2013

42.2 km

3:08:33

4:29 km

Health

180 lb
14945
50.7

Weather

15 C

Ratings

10 / 10
9 / 10
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Notes

Here's the tale. Boston went well. Can't complain about 3:11 and a 5 min PR. But I know I was ready for more. Ran too hard through the taper. Surely 90 mile weeks had to pay off better than that? Maybe not.Quality vs quantity et al.

Nonetheless, I gave Toronto a shot. Tapered way more and hoped for fresh enough legs. Slept like shit last few days, tweaked my back stretching yesterday morning and had to attend a function last night that kept me out late. Stars not aligned, I headed to the start full of positivity. The gun went off and so did I. To quote Corland again, I ran right out of my own skin, sucked it up when the legs felt dead at 18 miles and pushed through.

Result: Another PR 3:08:33, 5th AG, 65th OA and stoked!

Comments

corland

Saw it on FB, but just read the notes... Nice, Dave. I knew you were training hard, I didn't realize you'd been running that quite much. 90 mile weeks apparently take more than a traditional taper to recover from. Someday we'll cross paths and maybe pull off a couple PR's in the process.