Taper Week

So this weekends run was a taper run being 1 week out from Moab. Barry, Jeff and I settled upon 8 miles on the greenbelt. Jeff brought up the fact that we had not done this route in a long time, the Bridal Path had become our new regular route. Once again, Mother Nature was going to be kind and give us beautiful weather for the weekend. I knew that holding back at 8 would be the right thing especially if I was gonna do 3 on Sun for the Race for the Cure. We met at 6:30 and for another weekend the morning temps were.....dare I say it...."chilly?" I forgot what a great course this can be. The "greyhound", Barry, took off about a quarter mile a head of us, but Jeff and I ran at a pretty steady pace, hovering between 8:20-8:45. Coming up on 4 my legs felt pretty good. Stopping to refuel, Jeff commented on the speed of our first 4 miles. The weird thing is that it just felt comfortable. He pointed out that he did not want to risk injuring himself before Moab. The back 4 felt great as well, again Barry carried on ahead and Jeff took it easy on the way back. I'm not sure if it's the beautiful weather or the cocktail of all the right things but things feel good in my running world and I'm really pumped about traveling with the guys to Moab. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 1326 ft Location: Paradise Valley, AZ Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 10/11/08 Up/Downhill: [+124/-124] Time: 07:30 AM Difficulty: 2.3 / 5.0   Weather: Fair   68 F temp; 26% humidity   68 F heat index; winds Vrbl 5 Performance Distance: 7.92 miles Time: 1:07:33 Speed: 7.0 mph Pace: 8' 32 /mi Heart Rate: 160 bpm (Avg) Calories: 1206 175 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)   Heart Rate (bpm)   Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 169 - 188 0h 09m 14%  1.21 mi Zone 4 150 - 169 0h 56m 83%  6.63 mi Zone 3 132 - 150 0h 07m 10%  0.97 mi Zone 2 113 - 132 0h 01m 1%  0.11 mi Zone 1 94 - 113 0h 02m 3%  0.06 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0%  0.02 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 8' 50 +0' 18 6.8 -0.3 140 -22 ft 2 8' 08 -0' 24 7.4 +0.3 155 -19 ft 3 8' 10 -0' 22 7.3 +0.3 161 -26 ft 4 8' 05 -0' 27 7.4 +0.4 166 -13 ft 5 10' 44 +2' 12 5.6 -1.4 154 +6 ft 6 8' 34 +0' 02 7.0 -0.0 164 +23 ft 7 8' 30 -0' 02 7.0 +0.0 165 +20 ft 8 7' 48 -0' 44 7.7 +0.7 169 +22 ft end 8' 20 -0' 12 7.2 +0.2 172 +9 ft Versus average of 8' 32 min/mile

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