Hey guys! Need advice--I'm doing the 4.4 mile Bay on June 10th. What are your thoughts on when I should peak and start to taper? I've done the event twice before and have peaked about a week and a half out and that's worked okay. This year my training has been more rigorous and structured and I'm wondering if I should be peaking and tapering earlier or later. Thanks for any advice you might have!
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Daisymack-
So many variables to a taper. I'm doing the Bay Swim, too (5th time). I plan on doing about 3 miles in the Severn River this Sunday, pool recovery on Monday and my last hard pool workout will be Tues. The rest of the week I'll work on negative splitting sets of 400's and 800's. Stay in the water; just ease off.
As a D-swimmer in college we used to say taper was for sprinters but that was mainly to torque them off!
Good luck on the 10th!!
Tree
Oh yeah- resist the temptation to go water skiing the day before like I did the first time I did the GCBS.
Daisymack-
So many variables to a taper. I'm doing the Bay Swim, too (5th time). I plan on doing about 3 miles in the Severn River this Sunday, pool recovery on Monday and my last hard pool workout will be Tues. The rest of the week I'll work on negative splitting sets of 400's and 800's. Stay in the water; just ease off.
As a D-swimmer in college we used to say taper was for sprinters but that was mainly to torque them off!
Good luck on the 10th!!
Tree
Oh yeah- resist the temptation to go water skiing the day before like I did the first time I did the GCBS.
