4 Weeks Til My First Marathon!

I cannot believe there's only 4 weeks left. I'm about to start tapering! I'm starting to panic.

I was sore from my 20 miler, mostly because I ran this long run at 30 seconds faster than my previous ones. But it was finally cool and I was actually running on pace. But the legs felt it.

So for today's run I was not sure how fast or slow I would be since I still had some soreness. But after I warmed up (legs take 2-3 miles to warm up), the run was my usual negative split run. I only did the last two miles at sub 11mm, but hey, I just ran 20 miles on Sunday, don't expect too much.

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