I hate tapering before a race. Imagine being tied down to a chair on a railroad track with a freight train coming your way - you feel the need to flee, but you can't - except with tapering, there is no rope tying you to the chair, but you can't leave the chair! It's basically self-imposed head torture. My body wants to go do lots of things, lift heavy stuff, run hill repeats, SOMETHING....then I start freaking out that doing nothing is going to ruin my race, only to constantly remind myself that no, this is what you're supposed to do before a race, but then my head keeps screaming "WE NEED TO RUN!"
Instead, I get to sit here, stretch, go "easy" during my Crossfit workouts, only do short runs...I get grumpy, irritable, annoyed, and basically want to smack something/someone by the time I'm allowed to get to the starting line.
I know tapering is what has to be done before a race, but holy hell...it's always the hardest part of training.
