Kona Bound:What are you doing for your Taper?

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20 days out now. Wondering what others are doing? I always struggle with tapers. Too much or too little which way to err on the side of. Especially this week. I am going to IMH for my 5x time & I’ve never had a race performance on par with my abilities. I’d like to do something better.

Looking at my season so far with my last half IM on Sat (done with some restraint more at IM pacing & simulation) I’ve done alot so far with many of the races at IM training pace or an endurance bike ride chased by a half marathon. With my volume I really feel like I’ll be just twiddling my thumbs and detraining and getting sluggish.

4 Half Ironmans (5/21, 7/31, 8/7, 9/25)

6 Half Marathons (4/9, 4/17, 4/23, 5/8, 6/11, 7/4) 1 Ironman IMCDA 6/26 (DNF at 13 mile in run) 1 2.4 Swim Race (6/12)

3 160+mile Endurance Bike Rides (last 9/9/05)1 Olympic Triathlon (9/11/05) 1 7.6 Mile Run Race (5/1) 1 20 mile Run Race (5/30) 1 5k Race (6/18)

1 10K Race (10/2)

I planned something like this but am wondering if just going shorter might be better & getting more rest with doing yoga more than 1x a week.

      Meters  Time  Distance   Freqency Long/Total  Long/Total Long/Total  3 wk out 4x Swim 3400M/7500 4x Bike 5hr/8 4x Run 1.5 hr/4  2 wk out 3x Swim 3000M/5000 3x Bike 2.5hr/6 3x Run 1 hr/3  1 wk out 3x Swim 1700M/2800 3x Bike 1.5hr/2.25 3x Run 40 hr/2.5

Thanks for any useful input.

Barbara L

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That looks alot like what I was planning. Like you though I am never sure what to do, and I am worried I am cutting back way too soon and too much. I was maxing at 30+ hours a week, and now 3 weeks out I was planning somehwere around 15 hours and down from there…There was a discussion on the forum a while back about how a 3 week taper is bogus, but it seemed to work well for me at IMLP, so I’ll give it a shot again.

Best of luck to you :slight_smile: