Okay, I am a little behind in my posts, so I wanted to recap weeks 8 -10 for you here.
Week 8 brought in some relief- time to start tapering!. I wasn’t feeling great this week and was happy to start taper. I had an easy 3-mile run, 8 miles of tempo, and a 6-mile threshold run before hitting my last long run of the training cycle. Luckily, I had the ladies of She Runs This Town to carry me through 11 amazing miles.
Time to Taper!
Things got a little hectic in the next week- I was trying to readjust some of my runs so that I didn’t have to run much on a really fast work trip to Florida. I did end up cutting an 8-mile run down to 4.3 while I was there; I still wasn’t feeling 100% and it was so hot and humid. I figured junk miles weren’t really needed in Taper and called it a day on that one.
The last week of my training cycle turned out to be the best of these weeks. I started my week with a group run which helped raise my spirits. And, I was finally feeling better! Kentucky allergy season really hit me hard this year for whatever reason! I ended up doing two more easy runs that week and two days of complete rest. I was getting excited but nervous about race day! (You will have to read the next blog post to see how that went.)
Bluegrass BAMR 
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