tapering
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Tapering for Nationals: a Metaphor for Life
Photo: An easy recovery hike during my ten day taper for the 2025 National Senior Games cycling championships. Hyland Park, Minnesota, July 2025 It is Sunday morning 7:30 am. The sun is partially obscured by mist, the morning air cool—thick with the smell of lush growth and humidity—Minnesota late July. No one is on the…
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Training with a Plan Part III: The Taper
Featured Photo: Max Markusen leading the first technical crux, Lady Mountain Route, Zion Utah May 2024 Carefully making our way across an exposed traverse above a sandstone cliff, we pause to marvel at the scenery and solitude. The shadows on the canyon wall slowly descended as the sun climbs. Far below the sound of the…