I ran a PR half today, and it feels pretty good. I mean, I don't , I'm sore as hell! Last month I hit a PR of 2:01 and change. Today I did it in just under 1:55! It was work, and I kept telling myself I'd let off after the next km. I'm happy I've pushed writing the blog posts to Monday, because yesterday I wasn't feeling awesome about my running week. I was purposely trying to taper, while doing charity runs, but still felt guilty for not hitting my weekly kms. Today was validation for not hitting my weekly kms, and the actual good it will do. Even though I didn't hit my kms, I did a few costume runs. Those.are.taxing . My Weekly Performance Assessment has the usual " optimal strain, sleep could use improvement " header. Which hammers home how strenuous running in a costume is. I'll be interested to see next week's WPA, because my strain for the half marathon was 20.5. WHOOP uses a scale of 0 to 21 to measure strain. Which makes 20