What is Tapering?
Tapering means deliberately reducing your training load in the final days before your big race. This means less volume but maintaining the same intensity distribution.
The goal is clear: to arrive at the start line feeling fresh and with stable fitness. Your body gets the chance to fully recover, reduce fatigue, and bring out all the form you’ve worked hard to build.
Even if it feels unusually quiet, this is when your training works best. Trust the process: tapering prepares you for your best race.
Why is tapering so important?
Tapering is not a step back—it’s the fine-tuning of your entire preparation. In rest lies true strength.
Even though you train less, your body keeps working: it reduces fatigue, repairs micro-injuries, and even adapts further—your form improves, precisely because you’re doing less.
Training too much in the last days before the race risks the opposite: fatigue instead of freshness, heavy legs instead of lightness. Valuable potential is lost.
Tapering is more than just a break—it’s the phase where your training pays off.
What to expect now?
Shorter runs
A few reduced intense sessions
Pre-race preparation
Focus on recovery, sleep, and good nutrition
Mental note:
You might feel “lazy”—that’s normal! Trust the process.
Final tip:
Plan your race day setup: charge your watch, lay out your outfit, pack gels or water. Looking forward helps with focus!