10/03/2026
TAPER TIME🏃🏻♀️🤸🏿♀️🤸🏿♀️🤸🏿♀️🤸🏿♀️
Well it is that time AGAIN… 2 weeks out from Cape Breton Fiddlers Marathon!
Just finished my last long run of 14 miles and now to TAPER and rest up!!
The TAPER is almost the hardest part… yes I think this and here is why!!
You have worked so hard on the long runs, speed training, pace runs and the easy runs. It has been super intense and hard. But the TAPER PHASE- the mileage drops, time on your feet drops, intensity drops, hard long workouts ie 10x 800 speed sessions this past week drop off, and the super hungry appetite starts or should drop!
When you start the TAPER and all things above are less, it is hard to adjust! Don’t get me wrong, I am so happy to do LESS!
But.. you are still in that super amped up training and building phase, that it is hard to get your head around- YOU HAVE DONE THE HARD WORK, time to slow it down, fine tune, rest, hydrate and SLEEP! Adjust your eating too- you are not burning a million calories! Don’t get slow and heavy! It still requires a lot of discipline to stay the course and don’t second guess the process of the program.. you cannot gain anything at this point but rest PROPERLY!!