Well, I am running the Las Vegas Marathon this coming Sunday! The last two weeks I have been tapering down following the schedule by Hal Higdon. I ran 8 1/2 miles yesterday at an easy 11 minute pace. I was actually scheduled for 8 miles, but this is what the route worked out to. The previous Sunday I ran 12 miles, and I ran 20 miles the Sunday before that.
This week will be very easy. I am scheduled to run 3 miles Tuesday, and 4 miles on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday are rest days. The schedule has me running 1-2 miles on Saturday. But since I am going to be spending a big chunk of the day travelling to Las Vegas. I doubt I will get to run those. Being one of the Running Elvis I am supposed to get to run a glory lap around the Quality Of Life Expo at Manadalay Bay. But I am guessing that wont be very far.
Then Sunday is the race! I am pumped! I am ready! I can’t wait to get going!

Now the tricky part is that I want to run a 50k on December 31st! I will have to ramp up again, but not too much, because I need to taper for that too. So for next week, I will see how I feel. I might run a couple miles on Tuesday, maybe a 3-4 miles on Wednesday, and maybe 3-4 miles on Thursday. I will have to see how I feel. Since I have never runa marathon before, I may not be in any condition to run on Tuseday, Wednesday or Thursday…

Posted by Rob in Running on December 4th, 2006 |