{"id":3773,"date":"2011-06-11T20:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:56:57","slug":"tapering-on-beinn-mhic-chasgaig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/tapering-on-beinn-mhic-chasgaig.html","title":{"rendered":"Tapering on Beinn Mhic Chasgaig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tapering for a big effort can be so hard to judge, being theoretically simple but practically affected by other (external\/immutable) factors. So how do you score that two-day D of E expedition (Wednesday\/Thursday) from Corrour to Kinloch in a &#8216;tapering&#8217; context, being low-intensity but significant time-on-feet when tapering should maybe be more about maintaining the intensity and reducing the volume?<!--more--> (The answer after some thought in my case being to almost dismiss the c.18 miles of walking involved and head back out after a couple of hours&#8217; break for a proper wee 7.9-mile burn up to Tigh-na-sleubhaich and back in the hope of salvaging about 30 of the 35\u201340 miles of <em>running<\/em> I&#8217;d have had down for this week without the exped&#8230; although whether the trade-off should be scored on quite those terms is anyone&#8217;s guess!)<\/p>\n<p>Fancied a short but interesting hill run today to keep on track for said 30-mile target, and that&#8217;s exactly what I got this afternoon with a 6.7 mile\/2,600 ft traverse of Beinn Mhic Chasgaig in Glen Etive (a proper west coast hill where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/marine-diesels-and-munro-tops.html\">last weekend&#8217;s trip to Ben Wyvis<\/a> was more akin to a run through a 3,000 ft high &#8216;park&#8217;!). So I crossed the single-plank bridge at the bottom of the Allt Coire Ghiubhasan and turned from one gorge to another to follow the bouldery gully of Coire Aiteil before taking the northerly ridge off for the stunning prospect of Stob Dearg ahead, but ultimately couldn&#8217;t give that much attention to the view as I found myself having to pick my dizzily undernourished way down with some care (not to mention craving for the banana I&#8217;d left in the van for my return)! Happy with the taper, however (need 5 or 6 miles tomorrow then another big mileage cut to a 15\u201320 mile &#8216;week&#8217; with some rest over the final few days), feeling strong (maybe in the best shape I&#8217;ve ever been for this kind of thing) and hoping everything&#8217;s coming together just right for something special in Saturday&#8217;s 95-mile monster&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-06-11map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3789\" title=\"2011-06-11map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-06-11map-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-06-11map-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-06-11map.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapering for a big effort can be so hard to judge, being theoretically simple but practically affected by other (external\/immutable) factors. So how do you score that two-day D of E expedition (Wednesday\/Thursday) from Corrour to Kinloch in a &#8216;tapering&#8217; context, being low-intensity but significant time-on-feet when tapering should maybe be more about maintaining the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11825,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions\/11825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}