Why You Feel Flat Mid-Taper (and Why That’s Okay)

By Olivier Poirier-Leroy on SwimSwam
If you’ve tapered more than a handful of times, you know the feeling…
You’re a few days into what’s supposed to be the “feeling good and fast” part of tapering and it feels more like “swimming slow and slothy.”
Stroke feels like you have forgotten how to swim. Legs feel heavy. Looking at the clock you wince at how slow you are going.
Is this taper broken?
Feeling flat at some point during the taper is off-putti