The last two weeks have not been too exciting, so they did not deserve an individual blog post each.
\nAfter the high of having finally run 50km I started taking it easy for a three week tapering before the North Downs Way 50.<\/p>\n
On Monday I did an easy\u00a0recovery run<\/a>. I ran\u00a010k at 4:58 min\/km. I recovered quite well from the 50k run but felt pretty tired.<\/p>\n On\u00a0Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0I tried to get some speed in. I ran 12km at an average of 4:24 min\/km. The temperatures are\u00a0finally improving and it is again time to run in shorts which is a boost.<\/p>\n On\u00a0Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0I was too tired (I should not have accelerated the day before) so I did 12km at the easy 5:00 min\/km pace.<\/p>\n On Thursday I did\u00a015k at 4:43 min\/km<\/a>\u00a0and felt a lot better. 15k is my new favourite training length. I now find 10k \u00a0being too short and I start enjoying running after the first 8k so 15 is perfect.<\/p>\n In the meantime I have also read Eat and Run<\/a> by Jurek which I enjoyed very much. I am going crazy. If I am not working, I am running, thinking about running, reading running books or listening to running podcasts. I am surprised my family has not complained yet.<\/p>\n Friday I did another 15km run. This time I did it almost as a\u00a0progressive run<\/a>. The\u00a0first k at 5:00, the last k at 4:00. I felt good.<\/p>\n We then left for a long weekend in Paris where I planned to rest and have some quality family time.<\/p>\n Overall in the week I ran\u00a065km<\/strong>\u00a0as planned for my tapering.<\/p>\n I came back from Paris rested but with a cold. Too much rain on the Eiffel Tower. On\u00a0Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0I ran 12.5k at 4:47 min\/km on heavy legs. I felt strangely tired even if I had rested for three days.<\/p>\n On Wednesday I woke up with a killer cold and flue which explained why I was not running well the day before. I decided to skip running for the day.<\/p>\n On\u00a0Thursday<\/a>\u00a0I went out for 15km at 4:38 min\/km and felt a lot better. Even if still with a heavy cold.<\/p>\n On Friday I rested again (it’s tapering time after all) and Saturday I did 15k again<\/a> (I told you, 15k is my favourite length). I did them at 4:35 min\/km. I tried to keep it easy, but accelerated a bit at the end. Then I did a 2k run with my daughter Elisa, which made me happy. She hates running\u00a0but maybe in time she’ll change her mind.<\/p>\n