Week 11 - Tapering to the 6 hour

Running - Year to Date

Distance:   1,070.65 kms in 11 weeks at ave  97.3 kms ( week 10 -  99.3 kms )

Last week:  76.2 kms

Altitude:  23,689 metres in 11 weeks at ave  2,153 metres ( week 10 -  2,174 metres)

Last week:  1,945 metres

A tapering week with a non serious 6 hour track run on this Saturday. At one stage I thought I had a slim chance at the Australian record for my age group standing at 69.88 kms.
However, that record has been pushed out to near 77 kms which at 4' 40" per km for 6 hours is a bit beyond my athletic ability.
So I will just get out there to enjoy running around the track mixing it with the others doing the 48, 24 & 12 hour events. It's great to be able to observe the really good runners just to see how they handle the long time on the track.
This week had a couple of final long training runs with 29 km last Saturday & a 30 km on Monday ( public holiday). Neither had big altitude in them, just enough to get some strength from a few hills.
Otherwise, 3 days off, 2 due to rain & one due to shopping for race day food.