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s3/e08 Runner Q&A with Coach Elisabeth
The Running Explained Podcast
How Much Training Stress Are You Putting on Your Body?
The goal of the taper when we're tapering for anything is to reduce our cumulative fatigue and help our legs feel fresh that we can be at our best fitness on race day. It also depends on how important this race is to you. For some runners, not going to be important at all. And for some runners, it's very important. We want to focus less on distance here and I'm going to reference back training load. So how much load, how much training stress are we putting on our bodies on any given day? Well, we know about how the human body adapts, right; there’s something called general adaptation syndrome. You gain fitness during the recovery
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