Subject: RE: I hate the taper!
What you can do is divide your season up and categorize your races based on "importance."
You might have 2 or 3 races that you consider the most important. These are your "A" races. You can but your next batch of races in category "B," and the least important in category "C."
Generally you will be training the hardest prior to your "A" races, and for those its best to have an actual taper. For the "B" races, you may want to "train through," but perhaps build in a recovery week into your training plan as a "pseudo-taper," and not schedule your most difficult workouts just prior to the race. For the "C" races, you can just consider them as hard workouts.
And tapers themselves are a bit tricky. It depends on the volume of your training and distance of the event, but also depends on the individual to some extent. Tapers are also not about "laying low." Tapers are a scheduled reduction in volume over a period of time, not just stopping training a few days before a race. |