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M..eface. It's taper madness. Really someone should have answered your question. With my wealth of a camping experience I would suggest v shaped titanium pegs to go with long grass. Worth the extra money as time saving Therefore more rest so you'll be 25 mins quicker overall
Why does it feel like I'm still doing loads of training? The long runs / rides have tapered off but the rest of my week still feels pretty full on - is anyone doing less than Fink suggests?
I am Brit. Enough to keep me ticking over. Lazy cow
Brit - I haven't even looked at finks book for over 2 months so I've no idea
I feel the same way, I feel tired at the moment, I'm hoping next weeks light week will leave me feeling rested.
britsky.I have done nothing for the last 3 days.......i always taper big time
i will have adip in the taff this afternoon though,,nothing much....might have a run later and will probably have a bike ride sunday......I am busy at the moment with other life things though
im doing less than a "sprint training, get you round " plan
I might have a few days totally off now, before next weeks light training, see if that kick drivers the taper, or should i be feeling shattered?
Badger if you have got it spot on after a few days taper you should be climbing the wall's wanting to get out there and swim/bike/run. If you have a dvd boxset or if there is a room in the house that needs painting now is the time.
Just don't do anything daft and injure yourself.
Thanks Cake, I'm going to rest on Sat, Sun and Mon i think doing just a gentle 1/2 hour run tues, bike wed and swim thurs.
Just keep your muslces lose with some stuff without doing much or we will set caz on you.
I have done a SRB today.
That's Staggered Reverse Brick
It goes like this:
1 hour steady run this morning; get home, have coffee and flapjack; have more flapjack; potter; faff; potter; have lunch; take wee person to nursery; 35 very rainy mins on bike
Oooooooooh I think not Mr Cake
I've got hideous sciatica so doing excepwas swimming at the moment.
Fingers crossed it subsides enough to get to the start (and finish)
Outlaw on one good leg?!
Will pester for an MRI back after the event...
Excepwas?
Where did that come from little iPad??
In my experience all this tiredness when you taper is mental, your brain knows you plan to do something really stupid to your body soon so it:-
A) makes you feel tired so you rest and hopefully conserve energy to get the body through the really stupid thing
All this will magically disappear race morning
keep tapering and do not do nowt daft
Will the sciatica disappear too??
I hope so
Taper Madness - not to be confused with a mad tapir
Glad others are shattered too (suffering in isolation is never fun). Dumped last night's bike session and woke up feeling guilty so heading out now for a 45min run.
EP = Damn you getting my hopes up for weather like that on the day! I have purposefully avoided the long range forecast to avoid bad news or get my hopes up. It felt like the Likely Lads episode where they were trying to avoid the result!
You guys will be champing at the bit race day ready to tear someone's arms off if they try to stop you doing some serious exercise
RBM Thanks for posting
This is exactly how I feel at the moment, I just keep telling myself its OK and normal!
Hubby is now worried that I'm not doing ENOUGH training, talk about turnaround and poor chap is still wrong, it's too late now!
That's one of the reasons that I like to keep the frequency of training and increase intensity a little whilst decreasing the volume in the taper - keeps the body guessing!