I was reading an article from competitor(blasphemy). Usually I regard these sorts of things as complete garbage; however, this particular article was well thought out and seemed to make some good sense. To summarize the author posits that the taper should not be 3 weeks and that in fact it should be be truncated to several days especially for Iron distance triathlon. The author suggests that the three week taper is a vestige of marathon training at a time when the majority of elite runners were actually over trained.

What are the thoughts of the Slow-twitch brain trust?

triathlon.competitor.com/2014/06/training/perfecting-the-ironman-taper_10355/5


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