Tag: Taper time
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Road to Boston 2023 1st Taper Run
In the last few weeks before the Boston Marathon, Taper Time begins!
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Taper Tantrums
Taper Tantrums Originally posted April 1st, 2016 while training for the Boston Marathon. Updated September 24, 2021. Def: Emotional roller-coaster, feeling bloated, fat, slow and lazy. An endless urge to eat everything in sight, and to seek out food not in sight. The constant feeling like you should be doing something else right now, like…
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Taper Time 2016
I’m in my first full week of taper time, and I’m felling a little better. Last week I had a lot of stuff on my mind. I’m behind on my training and my fundraising, and time is running out! I knew these would be issues going into this, but it became very corpreal last week…
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Taper time for Bay of Fundy
It’s Taper Time again! Oh, Yeah! Like I’ve been training so hard that I need a taper! I just calculated my numbers since The Boston Marathon and it looks like I’m still in recovery mode. Since April 21st, I’ve run 98.39 miles. That’s 98.39 miles in 7 weeks! Sounds like a radio station, “Pudge 98.39, the…
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Living on Taper Time
It’s Taper Time for Boston Marathon runners! It’s time to reduce your miles and be careful. It’s more important to arrive in Hopkinton un-injured and rested than it is to make up a long run that you missed last month. You are as fit as you are going to get for this race. It is…
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10 Days and Counting!
I took this screen shot from the BAA’s site on April 10th. Is anyone else getting nervous? I’ve run Boston five times and eleven marathons all together, and I still get nervous thinking about Marathon Monday. With 10 days to go, there isn’t much left to do. I have one more long run this Sunday…