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Posts Tagged ‘taper’


This Week Last Year » The Beach to Beacon

By on Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | No Comments

Topics this week last year were dominated by the Beach to Beacon. I started the week off by offering 4 ways to determine the length of a pool in response to a reader question on the matter. Maine Running Company hosted a talk by John L Parker, Jr. where he discussed his history as a [...]

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This Week Last Year: Swimming

By on Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | No Comments

This week last year was filled mostly with racing news, and what wasn’t racing was related in some way to swimming. I offered 9 methods for counting laps in the pool. I usually use the buoys on the lane dividers. A revolutionary in the shotput in the early 50s, Parry O’Brien died of a heart [...]

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Making up workouts is a bad idea, especially during a taper

By on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

What do you do when you aren’t motivated to run, or when your schedule gets interrupted and you have to miss a workout? If you are like most runners, then you try to make up that workout later in the week. I definitely recommend against doing that, especially when you are tapering for a goal [...]

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Tapering for a marathon with Broken Socks

By on Friday, October 26th, 2007 | 1 Comment

Last night I only got a bit over a mile in for a run because one of my socks broke; it kept falling into my shoe under my heel. This is disappointing since it was one of my favorite pairs of socks; oh well, that’s what I get for keeping them around for a good [...]

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An overly active taper

By on Sunday, October 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment

Sometimes, your marathon preparation goes perfectly, your taper is phenomenal, and hopefully your race goes off without a hitch. Sometimes, things are not so smooth. I still expect my race to go off without a hitch, but my taper has certainly proven interesting. The general goal was to keep up with 50 miles per week [...]

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This Week Last Year: Beach to Beacon, Tapers, and Runs on the Sun

By on Sunday, August 5th, 2007 | 4 Comments

This week last year, just like this week this year, involved a lot of preparation for and the running of the Beach to Beacon 10k. At least there was not nearly as many doping scandals this week last year as there were two years ago. The Beach to Beacon was won by Tom Nyariki last [...]

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What is a “taper”?

By on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 | 4 Comments

You will often hear runners and other endurance athletes discuss a concept known as tapering for a race. What is a taper? Why is a taper important?

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Do you taper for a 10k?

By on Tuesday, April 25th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Liv over at Liv to Run wonders whether or not she should taper for a 10k. My Smartcoach schedule has me running my highest mileage ever in this, the second-to-last week before the race, and a hard long tempo only two days before. Should I stick to this, or would it be better to cut [...]

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