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One- do I really need to taper for my 10 mile race on April 5? I did a search here and could not decide on my own if it was beneficial or not considering it is just 10 miles. If I should do a taper how far out and what should it look like? Two Is it necessary to run the full 10 miles prior to running the actual race? The same goes for a Marathon, if one is training for a full marathon, should they have a least one run that is marathon length? I have heard basically that if you can run say 23 in your training run long run(s) that that should be sufficient enough, if you can run 23 you can certainly pull out the last 3 or so in the actual race. Right? Wrong? Personal preference?
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Denise, sounds good. I know you are fit. What I meant was running fitness and being sharp for race. Those who over taper on low mileage (which I am and you are) don't run their best and find a tougher ability to hold pace. I recently had to take a couple weeks off from running but still cross trained doing bike, stairmaster, bike etc. It took me 5 weeks to get my running fitness back to where it was before I took off which I monitored by my HRs and various paces. Good luck and you are wise to slowly build back up after the knee issues.