After 6 days of intermittent nausea, wobbly legs and colonic adversity, I finally managed to run without feeling ill. I decided to do do 3 laps of the 1-mile St Paul's Loop on my own. Right from the warm-up run I felt great and the speedwork followed suit. The pace was probably somewhere between 10k and 5k - average 5:38/mile pace (average 5m 32s per 0.98 mile loop).
The encouraging thing was this felt like fast, but controlled running and my legs felt springy and ready for work. This suggests (fingers crossed) that the taper has worked well and my illness has had no long term effect on my fitness. It won't be long now until I find out for sure!
All the best Statto. I'm looking forward to reading the final chapter of this story. Am confident it will be a happy ending!
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