-0.0 km vs Morning Run · +0.19/km

race-week taper run kept deliberately quiet; low HR and short duration are exactly the point three days out from the half

Evening Run · 4.01 km · 7:11/km · 28.8 min · 130 bpm This is the right race-week signal: short, controlled, and properly easy, with HR even lower than Tuesday while still adding a little leg turnover. Week is now 8.0 km against a 15 km taper target; enough stimulus, no volume to chase before Sunday.

Recovery markers are acceptable and there is no strong blocker to the planned session.

Today's call: train as planned

• HRV is supportive rather than suppressed.

• Resting HR is at or below baseline.

Because readiness is red, today's planned primer is optional, not owed. Either take the day completely off or keep it to 15 minutes genuinely easy; the win is finishing the day feeling better than you started.

The last two short runs did their job: rhythm stayed easy and cost stayed low. There is no fitness left to gain before Sunday, only freshness to protect.

The load chart is moving in the right direction, but the recovery signal says not to force a nervous-system primer today. Treat the suppressed HRV as a yellow-red traffic light: low speed, short duration, full permission to skip.

Toronto's downhill opening will make goal pace feel too easy. Bank nothing early; settle first, then decide after the Lakeshore stretch whether the day has more to give.