Week -2 was rather decent! A bit lower mileage (technically the first week of taper), but higher intensity with both a VO2 max and an lactate threshold workout, plus a long run.

The VO2 max was 5 x 600 m. The intervals were 2:23, 2:16, 2:19, 2:21, 2:19. That's an average of 2:20, which is 93s lap time. Sounds way too fast. Daniels says that's 50 VDOT. But I ran it by feel, and this came out. Maybe the fact that the university canceled classes, so I was working by myself in my office all day helped.

Friday I had a 5-mile tempo. This, after a little too fast 4-miler on Thirsty Thursday, which was also a little too thirsty... The mile splits were 6:51, 6:59, 6:53, 6:52, 6:41. I admit, I pushed the end, because the training plan said tune-up race, so I figured it was OK to go over my threshold for the last mile. In any case, even without the last mile, it averages to 6:54, which is better than 49 VDOT. Kind of scary how it's similar to the intervals, especially if I add the last mile in.

Saturday long run was 16 miles, on tired legs after the workout, but I stayed strong (and finished strong) with moving average of 8:16/mile. That would be just too fast for 47 VDOT. The fastest you may go on 48 is 8:13, so that's fine, but maybe this also points to somewhere closer to 50.

I'm not crazy, but it now it seems like 3:20 may be easy.