endurance
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I skipped the programmed rest and maintained about 80% of the previous week’s load. This is because I feel that the forced rest during my Christmas cold gave enough of a break for the muscles. I dropped the intensity so as not to tax the central nervous system too much after first being ill and
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This was the first full fledged training week after the illness over the holidays. One of the few positive aspects of getting sick is that it reset my sleeping schedule, which is why I was able to do most of my runs early in the morning. The degree to which I feel like I’m in
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Given the strong cold symptoms last week, I decided to take this week conservatively and skip the first two runs (those are Tuesday and Wednesday since Monday is always a rest day). Turns out I probably overshot the resting because I felt as strong as ever during the first run. Despite that, I decided to
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This week was the first proper setback during this training block. Last week, I had standard cold symptoms and dialled running back considerably. But seeing as it was a rest week anyway, I didn’t miss any key workouts. During this week, by contrast, I was supposed to return to high mileage with long (around 3
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If you have to be sick, you can do worse than being sick during a rest week. Obviously, you don’t get a similar quality rest as you would if you were healthy, but at least the legs get a break as intended. In last week’s entry, I talked about the fact that I felt fatigued
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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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