Originally Posted by waterrockets

Classic taper = same intensity, lower volume. I say take your recovery day and hit the hills hard Tuesday, as you normally would. After that, do everything you would normally do, but only 1/2 to 1/3 as much. So, two hill repeats instead of five or six, three 1m intervals instead of six, 25 miles of tempo instead of 50, two sprints instead of six, etc.