After a great week, a hard week follows!

I’ve gone from a 56 mile week down to a 21 mile week and this week is even harder!

This week I’ve all kinds of taper madness happening.

On Monday I went for a crazy run – I’m not sure what took hold of me but I did 4 miles with an average pace of 6:52 – there was no warmup or cooldown time – I did however do a good bit of stretching.

Monday evening/night I had a few pains in muscles – These could be the types of pain I get with flu!!!!! I’m putting it all down to taper madness but to be on the safe side I nearly overdosed with vitamin C – Had a lemsip with a drop of whiskey, a lean greens and gargled with Dispirin

Tuesday I felt great and put it all down to taper madness! I went to Peter to get my muscles flushed – really feel great and more than ready for Dublin.

Discussing the plan for Monday with Peter – stay with the 3:10 pacers (7:15 per mile pace) until mile 20 and then I can race the last 10k – Peter suggested a 10 min warmup, followed by 20 min (wind assisted) marathon pace followed by 10 min cooldown

Tuesday afternoon a sore throat and more pains – decided not to do the run and really overdosed on vitamin c and asked Peter for advise – rest and vitamin c + sauna if possible.

Wednesday: keeping the hydration levels and started to slowly add more carbs to my diet (had a pasta salad for lunch) The sore throat is gone and I’m not sure if I really had it in the first place.

Gone to bed early and I’ve flu type pains again – more lemsip and vitamin c.