Here you go, Jeanette...
According to www.wikipedia.org, tapering, in the context of sports, refers to the practice of reducing, or tapering off, exercise in the days just before an important competition. Tapering is customary in many endurance sports, such as the marathon, athletics and swimming. For many athletes, a significant period of tapering is essential for optimal performance. Longer endurance events are generally preceded by longer tapering periods. Typically, tapering for relatively short endurance events takes as little as a week or less, but tapering for an event like the marathon takes at least two or three weeks. Often, a workout simulating the actual race distance and conditions will climax the period of training immediately before tapering.
My 22 miler will be my last long run and then the tapering begins!
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