{"id":1459,"date":"2010-03-14T20:57:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2010-03-14T20:57:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T04:57:30","slug":"long-run-training-8-miles-taper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/14\/long-run-training-8-miles-taper\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Run Training: 8 miles (taper)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my last long run before the Los Angeles Marathon. The thing is, I wanted to do 12 miles, but then decided to lower the amount to 10 miles. As you can see, I completed the (originally scheduled) 8-mile taper. *sigh* A couple factors came into play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My knees started acting up. That&#8217;s right, <em>knees<\/em>. Though, it was more left knee than right. I don&#8217;t know; I mostly think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m just nervous for next weekend (LA Marathon is on the 21st!). Still, I thought my knees were going to be ok and it was on the 4th mile that I finally felt good about them&#8230; but then&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Sisy wanted to quit cos she had a painful arch! Ugh. When Annelle told me to &#8220;go ahead,&#8221; I generally just continue on my run (like last week). This time though, even if I did go ahead, I began to think about my knees again and naturally, began to feel some pain! Ahhhh. So I thought, well, let me just head back to the car and meet my (already) waiting sis. But she wasn&#8217;t there! So&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I backtracked (e.g., ran) to look for my sis and even went up the Strand a bit (in case she decided to continue running despite her sore arch) whilst texting and leaving her messages on her mobile! LOL. Meanwhile, I had already covered enough ground to make the 8 miles, missing at least a few of my walk breaks\/intervals. Hahaha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, to sum up (too late), I lacked the mental toughness today. I thought that since my sis had already given up, and that I didn&#8217;t really need to train much cos I was going to run LA easy, that it was OK for me to just stop. Still, I got some mileage in today and as much as I didn&#8217;t really feel strong afterwards, I&#8217;m just really hoping not to give up the same way next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stats (as recorded by Garmin <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/27045214\">Forerunner 201<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/player\/27045154\">Forerunner 50<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Actual Distance: 8.27<br \/>\nAvg Pace: 13:31 min\/mi<br \/>\nCalories: 794 C<br \/>\nAvg HR: 161 bpm<br \/>\nMax HR: 177 bpm<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I also need to hydrate this week because I also realised that I hardly drink water during the day (except during meals and when I need to take my vitamins). &gt;_&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my last long run before the Los Angeles Marathon. The thing is, I wanted to do 12 miles, but then decided to lower the amount to 10 miles. As you can see, I completed the (originally scheduled) 8-mile taper. *sigh* A couple factors came into play:<\/p>\n<p>My knees started acting up. That&#8217;s right, knees.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/14\/long-run-training-8-miles-taper\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[108,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}