I don't get this. Through the summer, as my RB and I have been training for the MCM, the heat and humidity have been oppressive. Our times were correspondingly slow (even for turtles). Our water intake was correspondingly high (I think I drank well over a gallon of water during one long run). So now it's cooler and dryer and our paces are picking up and our water consumption is down to a mere fire-hose. And I felt great about that as we headed toward the taper.

But now, in the taper, we're trying to run a little slower than our target race pac (tortoise + 15). But, we can't seem to run that slowly, especially for these shorter distances. We both feel soooo much better in the cooler weather that we're just running faster than we ever ran in the summer. So last Wednesday we did a 12-mile taper long-run and we ran it in a PR.But we were trying to go slow!

I guess that bodes well for the actual marathon.