Traditional Marathon Tapering is Wrong!
I believe traditional marathon tapering to be flat out wrong! 2 to 3 weeks of tapering down from your longest training run simply leads to physical and mental detraining before your primary distance event. From a physiologic perspective the trained human body needs anywhere from 4 to 7 days to recover fully from any training (e.g., glucose storage replenishment, alleviation and recovery of soft tissue damage, even minor injuries) that’s it! Therefore, longest runs can be executed up to 7-10 days prior to a distance event, if optimal training has been experienced leading up to it.
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