"Gree" - no, Dylan, Greece

I was in Greece this week, so my taper was more 'aggressive' than I'd hoped. Oh well, you only live once, and I'd never been to Greece before. More importantly, this was the first European trip that I've taken in some time where I didn't have the 'wide awake at 2 or 3 a.m.' blues...slept at night and didn't sleep (much) during the days.

Did run last week - once as a recovery and once at the hotel. Thus I added Greece to the list of countries where I've trained for the marathon...

Ran 15 this evening in 2:10 - which is only notable because it was at 151 average bpm - I walked for part...

Splits looked like this:

Mile	Time	Ave BPM	Comment
1	08:19	139
2	08:54	143
3	08:27	147
4	08:13	152
5	08:47	159	Bridge
6	07:57	154
7	08:32	154
8	09:06	149
9	09:07	146
10	08:55	145
11	08:12	153
12	09:03	152
13	08:20	161	Brooklyn Bridge
14	09:04	149	Recovery
15	08:14	158	No Break

As Brian reported via text message today 'I'm ready'

Next week continues the taper (no fast runs!) and I'll run the last 10 next Sunday...good thing too because we have a bat mitzvah on Saturday so I wouldn't have been able to run.

It was cold on this run (44 degrees) so I got a chance to try out my 'secondary' outfit for cold weather. I was pleased and had very little chaffing. I will know where to hit harder with the bodyglide on the big day.

No real interesting developments on this run - was simply a get it done kind of run. Now it was considerably faster than my last two 14 - 15 milers though, so you can see how the heat affects things...