, “He would have put me in a box, historically.” The stakes were huge, and Ovett’s failure to nail down that lid is shorthand for one of the greatest comebacks in athletics history. To understand just how great, we need to step back and take a closer
consider an extra rest day in the final week. Try to aim to reduce your training volume by about a third in the first week of the taper, and as much as a further third in the final week.For an athlete training five days a week you might consider