A great final session!

A rather shorter drift test session tonight, being the last week of taper, with half the usual warmup, 3 laps instead of 5, and a short cool down. 6 miles total. Despite it not really being long enough to reach a steady state HR-wise, it was definitely my best session yet! This should finally convince me I can maintain my pace plan on Sunday.

One negative though! My legs did feel rather sluggish. Despite my low heart rate, it was quite an effort, mentally, to keep the pace going. Tapering blues? I've felt a bit down for a few days now. I think I'm just experiencing what a lot have reported as one effect of the taper. For now, I will choose to ignore this and concentrate on the positives.

1.5-mile continuous laps. 1 mile warm up/cool down not included

Lap	Lap time	Mins/mile	bpm
1	12:12	8:08	129
2	12:14	8:09	138
3	12:15	8:10	141

Here's my slightly disappointing session from 2 weeks ago:

1.5-mile continuous laps. 1 mile warm up/cool down not included

Lap	Lap time	Mins/mile	bpm
1	12:36	8:23	141
2	12:36	8:24	142
3	12:39	8:26	143
4	12:35	8:23	145
5	12:35	8:23	145

and my best session previously, from 10 weeks ago:

1.5-mile continuous laps. 1 mile warm up/cool down not included

Lap	Lap time	Mins/mile	bpm
1	12:23	8:15	138
2	12:19	8:12	141
3	12:18	8:12	142
4	12:20	8:13	141
5	12:15	8:10	141