City2Surf Final Taper 5.5km Maximum Threshold Hill Run

Only 4 days until City2Surf 14km mass participation road race. I've been doing the taper a little different this time. I started the taper earlier, kept the volume high on most days, had a low volume day once a week or so. I also had a whole week with no speed sessions. Today a hill loop in the morning, at lunch another maximum threshold run of 5.5km down to the beach and back, very hard on the final 1.5km climb. In the afternoon a short slow jog. From tomorrow I'll start to reduce volume down to 85km for the week after hitting 130km a couple of weeks ago. Just easy running and some short strides until race day.

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