I completely spaced out on my schedule last week, and as a result I am running an unexpected 12.5 tomorrow. I didn't realize until late last night that I would have to be doing that. I had shifted my rD/Galloway plan forward a week to account for all my races, so the races fell on the short weeks. This was going to leave me with a 3 week taper, due to doing the last long run on 10/17. With a 5K race on 10/24, I couldn't really do my last long run that day unless I added a lot of distance at the race, but it's in an unfamiliar area. I figured I did a 3 week taper with the rD plan for Tink, it would be ok... I'd just maybe do a medium run at some point during the second taper week and it would be fine.
But at the beginning of last week, I somehow got it into my head that I'd screwed up because I had a race 10/4, how did I miscalculate that badly? I decided that instead of 4 last week (I did the 11 two weeks ago), I would do ~7, do the 5K race this weekend, and then I would be back on the original rD plan of 12.5 on 10/10. This was going to leave me with the 14 mile run on 10/24 the same day as my last race, but I was just going to do the race, and then try and do 8-9 on Sunday and hope for the best.
Well, last night I was looking for the parking info on the race website and noticed the ticker said 8 days until the race. Wait, what? GRRRR! The plan had never been screwed up. I knew at some point the race was the 11th, but somehow got it in my head recently that it was the 4th. Too late to do the run today... I ran a pretty hard 3 miles last night, and I don't run 2 days in a row, and we already had breakfast plans with the in-laws for this morning. Welp, hopefully those pancakes will power me through tomorrow! So I've had a pretty unintentional 3 weeks in a row of high mileage for me... 11 miles, then 7 miles last week, and now 12.5 tomorrow. I'm sure I'll be pretty glad next weekend to only have the 5K.
