Week 10

Employing pyschological thinking on this - only 3 weeks hard training left and then taper. Okay, so I know I did my 20 too fast last Sunday now (did wonder, but I had been trying to run by how I felt). Monday was a 5 mile recovery shuffle in the hope that my legs would magically become looser. By Tuesday night they were feeling much better.... until I tried to run again. It was like running through treacle and my quads were agony. Wednesday I rested, but my legs still didn't feel any better. By Thursday I was panicking a bit and went and bought myself some Skins capri pants. I have read about how compression clothing helps, but thought it must be a placebo effect. Placebo or not, they have worked for me. Thursday 4 x 1.5 mile intervals on the treadmill went fine and legs didn't ache. Friday a 3 mile tempo session plus warm up and down also went really well. And today I can't quite believe the point I am at - no more 20s to do! The thing I was most nervous about and dreading is out of the way. (Strangely the 22 in a couple of weeks isn't actually worrying me too much). I tried to pace it better today and ended up doing it in 3:01 which was about right I think. I did try to pick up the pace for the last couple of miles again and so pleased because it felt easy (8:18, 7:57 pace). When am I allowed to get excited / nervous?! And when I am tapering will I be able to try for a 5k pb? Desperate to give it a go, but don't want to ruin my marathon chances in the process.