Comments on: how do YOU taper?

By: Mike Paus

Mike Paus — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:38:22 +0000

My taper involves a lot of time on the couchmobile, regenerating all the muscle I tore up on my 21 miler. I’m just about back to 100%. I don’t plan on running more then 2 or 3 miles at a time for the week before the marathon.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:00:26 +0000

Actually I recommend not to slow down too much. A usual training week in the week before. In the week of the marathon I just reduce a bit the distance of each run, maybe doing one run with intervalls (faster than marathon pace but in total less than 50mins), possibly two 10k runs (slow/medium pace), and having on Friday and/or Saturday runs from 25 to 35 mins. I don’t like to be too “lazy”, regeneration is usually very good after the harder training weeks before and I don’t like to loose focus!
Off course, I don’t know if this made me faster or slower in the past

By: Lafe

Lafe — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:45:17 +0000

My life is a taper. I’ll let you know when I quit tapering.

By: Deene

Deene — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:10:21 +0000

No formal taper for me. I just don’t run the day before.

By: Chris Brogan...

Chris Brogan... — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:01:22 +0000

I don’t exactly taper. I kind of fall out of favor with miles, but not in any meaningful way. Some day, I’ll get a better sense of it.

By: Dianna (RCOH)

Dianna (RCOH) — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:03:54 +0000

Since this is my first real “taper,” I’m just doing what Hal Higdon tells me to. This week the runs are 4,6,3 and 8. Next week 3,4, and 2. I’m all about the eating, drinking and sleeping and cannot wait to load up and bloat up next week!