TAPER MADNESS!!!!

Mark B wrote:

Michele \"1L" Keane wrote:Ok got it done, now it is time for Nick and Nancy

Nice work getting it done, Michele!

Let's go, Nick and Nancy!

We'll do our best!!! (if I can get my Garmin working)

Go Nick and Nancy! Have a great time!

Julie wrote:Go Nick and Nancy! Have a great time!

We did!!!  The MADNESS is over!!

yippee!!  9 pages of madness coming to an end.

mountandog wrote:yippee!!  9 pages of madness coming to an end.

Hey now!! You had fun, too

Why? I have a race in 5 weeks.

Nick Morris wrote:

Julie wrote:Go Nick and Nancy! Have a great time!

We did!!!  The MADNESS is over!!

Now your post count will level off.

Julie wrote:

Nick Morris wrote:

Julie wrote:Go Nick and Nancy! Have a great time!

We did!!!  The MADNESS is over!!

Now your post count will level off.

I highly doubt that

Nick Morris wrote:

mountandog wrote:yippee!!  9 pages of madness coming to an end.

Hey now!! You had fun, too

And he will be back with a 50 MILE race in 3 wks - lol!

mountandog wrote:yippee!!  9 pages of madness coming to an end.

I still have 6 days of madness.   That might be good for another page. 

Strangely, I didn't really get the madness this year until the night before the race and I started to get that butterflies in the stomach feeling.  I was actually very calm and relaxed all the way up to that point.

mul21 wrote:Strangely, I didn't really get the madness this year until the night before the race and I started to get that butterflies in the stomach feeling.  I was actually very calm and relaxed all the way up to that point.

I usually get all sorts of taper madness and I am amazingly fine for this one despite having an ankle problem earlier in the week and constantly running into sick people.  I plan to all out race it, but I also plan to do so without using my watch and I am rather resigned to just seeing what happens, so maybe that is why I am more relaxed. But I still 5 days for all that to change!

The no watch thing is very brave and I almost did the same in Indy.  I'm glad that I didn't for the first few miles, but I actually never looked at it from about mile 7 on to the finish.  I went with how I felt and it worked.

Michele \"1L" Keane wrote:The no watch thing is very brave and I almost did the same in Indy.  I'm glad that I didn't for the first few miles, but I actually never looked at it from about mile 7 on to the finish.  I went with how I felt and it worked.

If it wasn't for my friend Pete, I would have almost been in the position to go watchless.  Thank god I didn't have to, though...

carleenp wrote:

mul21 wrote:Strangely, I didn't really get the madness this year until the night before the race and I started to get that butterflies in the stomach feeling.  I was actually very calm and relaxed all the way up to that point.

I usually get all sorts of taper madness and I am amazingly fine for this one despite having an ankle problem earlier in the week and constantly running into sick people.  I plan to all out race it, but I also plan to do so without using my watch and I am rather resigned to just seeing what happens, so maybe that is why I am more relaxed. But I still 5 days for all that to change!

In 2012, I was weirdly anxious on the Wednesday before Houston.  I had trained really hard and lost 30 pounds, so I was itching to run the race.

That evening, I went down to the GRB convention center where we were having a Oly Trials meeting.  I looked around at all the preparation going on the street in front of the GRB and I got this calmness over me.  It settled me down and on Sunday, I was ready to rock.

I'll have to do that again in 74 days (I looked at the website's countdown clock:geek:  ).

Michele \"1L" Keane wrote:The no watch thing is very brave and I almost did the same in Indy.  I'm glad that I didn't for the first few miles, but I actually never looked at it from about mile 7 on to the finish.  I went with how I felt and it worked.

I'm planning to use it for the first two miles to avoid going out too fast. But after that I am putting it on the time of day screen. It worked well for me at my last half,so I figure I'll see what happens at the full!

carleenp wrote:

Michele \"1L" Keane wrote:The no watch thing is very brave and I almost did the same in Indy.  I'm glad that I didn't for the first few miles, but I actually never looked at it from about mile 7 on to the finish.  I went with how I felt and it worked.

I'm planning to use it for the first two miles to avoid going out too fast. But after that I am putting it on the time of day screen. It worked well for me at my last half,so I figure I'll see what happens at the full!

Good plan to use the watch for the first couple miles.  I relied on the 4:15 pacer to start me out easy (goal of 4:05-4:10).  Her first mile was 8:57...way to fast! 

Good luck.  I'm anxious to see how it goes.

This is why we get taper madness.  For images like mine below as I make my way through the shoot at the finish...

And you're all color coordinated, too!

ounce wrote:And you're all color coordinated, too!

The shoes match, too...Kenny would be so proud.

Nice! And you've almost got that Dave-O tongue thing going, too!

Mark B wrote:Nice! And you've almost got that Dave-O tongue thing going, too!

You mean like this one?

Nick Morris wrote:

Mark B wrote:Nice! And you've almost got that Dave-O tongue thing going, too!

You mean like this one?

Yup!  

Such an influence, that Dave-O.

ounce wrote:Such an influence, that Dave-O.

Either that, or Miley Cyrus...