endurance
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The week started with one of the best runs of the entire year. The workout was simple 2x15min@Z3, which I decided to on a nearby segment that’s approximately 3km at 9% split in two climbing sections and a valley in between. I estimated this segment, which includes a fair amount of stairs, would take me
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This week, I finally found fatigue. One of the themes of this training block has been how fresh I’ve felt despite doing high-to-me mileage. Two factors conspired to cause a drastic change to that theme during my Sunday run. First, I carried a fair amount of cumulative fatigue from the previous week. Second, and probably
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This week was the biggest of the training block so far, with the plan calling for a total of approximately hundred kilometres of mostly easy running during the week, with the weekend runs making up about half of the total volume. Because I’ve never done such high running volume in the past, I approached the
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This was a rest week focused on recovery and adaption. The plan called or a 50% drop relative to the highest volume in the previous three weeks, but I cut it slightly more because the next week is going to be the highest volume week I’ve ever done running, i.e. about 100K or 10 hours.
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The training plan that I’m following uses 3-week “mesocycles” that have a resting week between them. The three-week period leading up to Week 7 is one of the best running blocks I’ve ever done. The weekly volume during the cycle progressed from 65 kilometres to 80 kilometres, with approximately half of the mileage getting accumulated
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This week was a copy of the previous one except for two modifications. First, I switched the muscular endurance workout in my plan into the one discussed here. There’s one primary difference, which is that instead of repeating sets of split jump squats and box step ups ad infinitum (or so it feels in any
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After several years of experimentation, I’ve come to realise that my biggest trail nemesis is dehydration. One litre of fluids per hour with at least 1000mg of sodium seems to be the bare minimum in almost any conditions. If I’m messing with this formula too much, I’m virtually guaranteed to blow out after about three
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When you hear interviews of elite athletes who balance, say, family commitments with training, they usually tell you about how they prioritise ruthlessly, waste no time, and so on. The problem with this, of course, is that for every such athlete you could easily find one who tried to prioritise but failed and started performing
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I’ve never gotten the post race blues. What tends to happen is the opposite, which is that I get so inspired from racing that I get back to training too quickly. That’s why I needed to exercise some self-restraint to keep my runs short and far in between. Specifically, I only did two 5K runs
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Racing on the second week of a training block is highly unusual. My original plan had been to do a full 16-week training plan ahead of the Kodiak 50K race, but that idea was foiled by a toe injury. Once I was finally able to get back to running, I was close enough to the
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