I am 6 days away from my first marathon! It is nice tapering my long run yesterday was 20 min easy 20 min around 5:50 miles then shut it down for the last 20. I hit the trails off of Bronte Creek, which is inside the provincial park.... This is another one of my secret trails.
I will let everyone in on the best trails around! Oh yes..better then neyagawa and Hilton Falls. This is a single track run were you never cross a road or see a car. You start by entering through the trails of Monarch Homes off Bronte and Dundas and cut into the Provincial Park. From there you go into the camp ground section, cut through camp site 343 then BAAM! Single track. I go on my MTB and it is an hour our and hour back! Running is awesome. You run along the Bronte Creek then under Dundas and into another single track. You see the odd person walking but when you head more north on the trail CyclePath as built a park with tons of obstacles! I have run pretty much every run there this fall and done the fast stuff on the track!
I am feeling good and starting to rest. It has been a while since I have had some down time so to be off my feet at 10am is pretty awesome. They are calling for 12 degrees and cloudy with some serious wind on Sunday so we will wait to see what is in store. The hard work is done now to perform!
Other then that life is good!
Canadian Triathlete - ISSA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist - CPT-ADV, CPR/AED
6 comments:
Tyler,
Thanks for the trail suggestion! I have been testing different ones for the past month or so with mixed success.
Good Luck this weekend! I promise not to draft off you too much, mainly because you will be miles ahead...
Haha, how is the training going? Feeling ready? If you need any taper tips let me know!
See you at the start
Training went well and I feel that I am more prepared than a few years back (2007 Niagara Falls) and even ahead of where I was for ATB (2009 spring).
As long as it is a decent day, on the weather side of things, I believe I can hit my goal. The thing I get caught up in is trying to go even faster when I feel good at the start of a race. I usually have a goal time in mind but if things are going well than I tell myself to destroy the goal time and go as fast as possible. In the shorter races, you can often shuffle out the last few km's if you fall apart and still have a good result. The marathon is not so kind so I have to stay on plan. Just trying to figure out the correct pace for the first 30k as I know, no matter how prepared I am, there will be a reduction in pace around this point.
I have a workout plan for my taper but my big weakness is nutrition during this downtime. Any snack suggestions that satisfy but are not calorie killers?
I appreciate your feedback!
Best of luck!
Larry
You will kill it.
To be honest if I am hungry first I down a bottle of water because hunger is usually a sign of dehydration. If that doesn't work I take a rice cake with peanut butter and jam and that usually gets me over being hungry.
Awesome! I will give it a shot to see if I can keep away from the unwanted calories.
Better than Neyagawa trails, eh? that's a pretty steep order. I've finally graduated (from two months of physio) after Muskoka so I think I'll have to check out those trails.
On an unrelated note, I've been looking for Teeccino around here with no luck - any idea where I can find it? I'm in the process of quitting caffeine.
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