{"id":1489,"date":"2015-03-24T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2015-03-24T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T20:34:33","slug":"how-not-to-taper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Taper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4144-Shrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1494\" src=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4144-Shrunk-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4144 (Shrunk)\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4144-Shrunk.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4144-Shrunk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4144-Shrunk-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>We have spent the last two days exploring Prague&#8217;s never ending maze of cobblestone streets and still feel like we have barely scratched the surface of this historical city. \u00a0 The only thing I haven&#8217;t really managed to do? \u00a0Run.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not entirely true. On our first morning I did do a mini run of 4k. \u00a0But I stopped so many times either for traffic, pedestrians or simply to look at things that I&#8217;m not convinced I can officially call it a run. \u00a0I can tell you that running on cobblestones is much more difficult than you might think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1492\" src=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2284 (Shrunk)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2284-Shrunk.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you want to taper in all the wrong ways, just do as I do and try the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t bother running the final week of training<\/li>\n<li>do walk at least 15 km daily for two weeks prior to your race (today we were closer to 20)<\/li>\n<li>do lots of hills and stairs, in fact make sure wherever you are staying has a minimum of 80 stairs to climb (we have 88 here at our place in Prague &#8211; completely worth it though as the apartment is gorgeous with an amazing location).<\/li>\n<li>Just in case you haven&#8217;t done enough stairs, go up a bell tower with just more than\u00a0200 stairs coiled so tightly you are dizzy by step 10.<\/li>\n<li>Follow a very special diet, including<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Bratwurst and giant pretzels (Germany)<\/li>\n<li>crepes, cheese, socca (traditional Nice chickpea bread), chocolate croissants, and Lays olive flavoured potato chips (France)<\/li>\n<li>pizza and gelato (Italy)<\/li>\n<li>dumplings, apple strudel, trdelnik \u00a0(a traditional grilled &#8211; yes grilled &#8211; pastry), hot mulled wine and beer (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In my defence, the beer in Prague costs the same as a bottle of water. \u00a0This is the land of the $2 beer! \u00a0The beer and wine are also sold at stands on every corner. \u00a0Once you buy it you can walk freely with it. \u00a0Quite a change from Ontario where we can&#8217;t even buy beer or wine in the grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>All of this should add up to a fast half marathon in a couple of days, right?<\/p>\n<p>Oh well, there is always the Ottawa half in May to aim for another sub two hour race \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Some more photos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4124-Shrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1496\" src=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4124-Shrunk-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4124 (Shrunk)\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4124-Shrunk.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4124-Shrunk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4124-Shrunk-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4170-Shrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1493\" src=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4170-Shrunk-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4170 (Shrunk)\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4170-Shrunk.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4170-Shrunk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4170-Shrunk-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4157-Shrunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1497\" src=\"http:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4157-Shrunk-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4157 (Shrunk)\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4157-Shrunk.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4157-Shrunk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_4157-Shrunk-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; most of my run will be following the river you see above<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have spent the last two days exploring Prague&#8217;s never ending maze of cobblestone streets and still feel like we have barely scratched the surface of this historical city. \u00a0 The only thing I haven&#8217;t really managed to do? \u00a0Run. That&#8217;s not entirely true. On our first morning I did do a mini run of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3amQ2-o1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raz-family.ca\/RunKristi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}