Slacking..

This week's schedule was fairly light:
Rest, run 4, run 8, run 4, rest, run 8, cross.
Results:
Mon 5/22 - Rested
Tue 5/23 - Ran 4 in 31:40
Wed 5/24 - Skipped this run (too busy at work)
Thu 5/25 - Ran 4 in 31:41
Fri 5/26 - Rested
Sat 5/27 - Ran 8 miles in sweltering heat. Not a lot of fun. Today after the run starts my low carb pre-race diet.
Sun 5/28 - Rest some more.

Now, I've been told that some pros don't run at all the week before the marathon, with the belief that conditioning is not going to go away in a single week. So I'm not sure if I'm just going to sit on the couch next week or do some tiny runs (2,3,4 miles). We'll have to see how my injuries are doing. My IT band problems seem to have gone away, my hip flexor problem seems to be gone, everything seems to have shifted into my left calf muscle (like some kind of injury Rubik's cube). Now I just need to keep that area limber and I should be fine. I've been doing exercises for my shin splints, and those appear to be fine as well. For the marathon, I'll have to work hard on starting very slow (10 min per mile) and accelerating throughout the race, keeping an eye on my HR and drinking at every water stop (and not stopping).