Quote Originally Posted by snapdragen View Post
I <3 the taper!

It's bizarre, this is my third half, and it seems I have a harder time each season. Maybe it's a sign I need to stop this silliness and ride my bike...
Heh, you're less of a slow-learner than I am...I ran 3 marathons before I decided that running that much is some sort of madness. Now that I have my bike I want to run less and bike more. After a 25k in May and a trail relay in June I will be scaling-back a lot on my running for a few months and working more on getting biking miles and weight workouts into my schedule. For 4 years I've been running with the hopes that weight loss would come along, but running makes me so insanely ravenous that the opposite happens. I definitely seem to be one of those people who benefit more from muscle-buildng and less cardio.