Taper Traps

Contributed By TriFatlete | Published: Mar 30, 2008

Don't get caught making these common mistakes in the weeks before your big race. Call them taper tantrums--the phantom pains, panic attacks, and much more--that plague most marathoners during the three-week period of decreased training just before the race. "Runners develop not only a physical but also a psychological dependency on running," says Troy Smurawa, M.D., a 2:46 marathoner and physician at Akron Children's Hospital Sports Medicine Center.

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