Tapering?

I don't know that I can call this less than 3 week to race day period tapering as there hasn't been much mileage to be tapering from the past 3 months.  Nonetheless, I ran a high mileage weekend logging 9 miles Saturday and 19 Sunday.  I am confident at this point that I will meet my goal of completing both events next month.  This wasn't the case 10 years ago when I was heading to the same place to compete in my very first marathon.  I don't know what my training mileage was or how many miles I had on my race day shoes as I wasn't tracking mileage back then.  I think I ran one run over 16 miles and paid for my lack of training dearly.  I was the sorest after an event that I have ever been.  I compounded the undertraining by returning to my hotel room and sleeping for a couple of hours immediately after the race.  I'll be hitting the parks now post race to keep the muscles moving albeit very slowly this time around.  Depending on the weather conditions and the way my body feels, an ice bath may be on tap as well.  I'll leave that for a  post race decision.
Speaking of weather, Houston had chamber of commerce days both Saturday and Sunday.  I waited until 10 Saturday and noon Sunday to get out for my long runs.  The temps were near 50 both days at the start of my runs.
I just need to make it through this next week without any additional weight gain.  It'll be hard to do heading home for lots of sweets but hopefully I'll run enough to balance the additional food.