flatlandcycle
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2008
So my next long run is this Monday--14 miles. I was hoping to get in one more long run after that and start the taper two weeks before the W&D, but maybe that's a bad idea and I should start tapering sooner? When are you all starting your tapers? Seems like most of you only have one long run left.
I would stick to your plan. Maybe only 13 miles two weeks before. Four weeks is long for a 1/2 marathon taper. The Galloway, "Time Improvement" plan has us doing 17 miles three weeks out, but we come back a week later with 7 miles at Lactate Threshold (McMillan cruise interval pace); with warm-up and warm-down that's 10 miles or more. If you feel really knackered or your joints and bones are feeling beat up by all means skip a mile here and there. Don't start speed work now if you haven't been doing it all along. It's hard to give advice without knowing what you've done to get to this point.