Half Marathon Taper

workout_junkee

My first half is in 2 weeks (10/21). I ran 12 miles last Saturday. I have planned the following for my final 2 weeks.

Tomorrow - 6 miles (I plan to "jog/shuffle" the Color Run that afternoon).
Monday - 3 miles
Tuesday - 5 miles
Thursday - 3 miles
Saturday - 8 miles (decreased from 10 after talking to a few friends)
Monday - 3 miles
Tuesday - 2 miles
Thursday - 2 miles
Sunday - half

Does this look okay? I did not taper enough for my 20k in June. My legs were tired and I hit a wall at mile 11. It was a sad crawl across thd finish line. I am trying to do a better job of tapering but do not want to over do it either.

BrianSharpe

Just in case you missed them you got some replies in the other forum....

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/760930-half-marathon-taper-question

workout_junkee

Thanks I meant to post here and acidentally posted to the nutrition board.

arc918

My $.02 - that last week looks a little too light to me. 7 total miles and 3 rest days would leave me totally flat on race morning.

wolfchild59

I only tapered a week before both of my half marathons. My two weeks prior to the race looked like this:

Half 1:
Sunday - 13 mile run
Monday - Strength (one hour, upper and lower body, heavy)
Tuesday - 5 mile run
Wednesday - 45 minutes of hill training
Thursday - Strength (same as Monday) and a 3 mile run
Friday - Rest day
Saturday - 60 minutes of cross cardio
Sunday - 10.5 mile run
Monday - Strength
Tuesday - 4 mile run
Wednesday - 30 minutes of cross cardio
Thursday - 3 mile run
Friday - Rest
Saturday - Rest
Sunday - Race day, ran at my best pace ever

Half 2:
Sunday - 14 mile run
Monday - Strength
Tuesday - 5 mile run
Wednesday - 45 minutes of hill training
Thursday - Strength and a 3 mile run
Friday - Rest day
Saturday - 60 minutes of cross cardio
Sunday - 11 mile run
Monday - Strength
Tuesday - 4 mile run
Wednesday - 30 minutes of speed training
Thursday - Rest
Friday - Rest/drove five hours to the race location
Saturday - 5-K in my fastest 5-K time (not on purpose, was just running for fun and happened to have a PR)
Sunday - Race day, ran at the same pace as my first half despite it being 15 degrees hotter in comparison