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Podcast: Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
Episode: Your Tapering Questions Answered
Description: Tapering is one of the most difficult mental challenges we face as runners when targeting a big goal race. We’ve put in weeks and months of hard training and sacrificed a lot to try and get ourselves in our best racing shape and yet everything could come crashing down in the final two to three weeks if we’re not careful. Add in the fear of the reduced mileage and workouts ruining our fitness plus all the weird feelings, such as dead legs we commonly experience in the final two weeks and it’s no won...