It's taper time! Taper and I have a love/hate relationship. Obviously I love not having to workout 30 hours a week and wake up at the crack of dawn on a daily basis, but at the same time not working out 30 hours a week and waking up at the crack of dawn is terrifying.
The idea of the taper is to reduce your workouts enough so that your body recovers and is fresh on race day. The trick of the taper is to do it early enough that your body recovers, but late enough that you don't loose the base that you've built.
I think high school cross country jaded my idea of the taper. Every year our cross country coach would taper us to peak at the regional cross country meet and every year we would peak one week early at the district meet. Every year it was devastating. At that point I basically decided tapering was a bunch of BS.
I know I need to get over my taper-phobia. Joe tapered me for both the Boston marathon and Muncie and I did well at both so there is no reason to believe my Ironman taper is not going to work. I guess all of this extra time just gives me one more thing to worry about!
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