Tuesday 31st of October
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Rest
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Rest
*Whole day went into helping our friends Karl and Karin move out of their old appartment and int a new. I estimate i have walked 4-5K in stairs with furniture, washing machines, books, etc.
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This blog is intended as a medium for me and my friend & coach Glen Grant to keep track on my training. Anyone is welcome to comment.
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End of season block
Focus: To finish the summer with a final spell of hard lactate tolerance & speed endurance work - and racing a couple of track races (and several road races) in order to get at least one decent result on 800 m this summer. So far only 2:02, I want to see a sub 2:00 time before winter begins.
3 comments:
You might well be right on the fartlek. The key to the shorter week is to make sure that each session is only 70% load so that on each day you feel fresher but you have still run fast. If you get this riight then you should be able to handle the longer week more easily all the time, perhaps even increasing mileage as the months progress.
But it is early days to get the rhythm and protoocol right. The key thing is to learn from each week and to progress somewhere, and not just into tiredness.
so far this fall / winter has felt a lot like establishing the pattern for training again, but now trying to learn how to really add something to it as i weeks go by. but last weeks has also been a bit chaotic with all sorts of distractions from training. from here to new year looks better.
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i will also rewrite my profile and do an assesment of last summer, and after that try to think again, both about my training and what words i´m using in describing sessions - clearly something is wrong with it as i lived in dreamland all the way to 12th of august this summer of & season of 2006.
- marcus
Dreamland may be true but on long weeks you are now running mileages that many can only dream of. That means something. What is clear is that the chemistry has still not transformed itself. It is working well but the higher levels of output are not so good.
I suspect that you have simply not spent enough time aerobically working the white muscle in the winter to act as a base for the summer. Speed forces you over threshold too quickly. Getting greater volumes of work at speed and in the air should help this. But this does mean not taking this work into stress too much or it spoils, both the piece and the overall total. Aone way is to ensure that all the runs have hills in them and slow steady running uphill is sure to engage white muscle and to be aerobic.
The key now is to ensure that the total volume of mileage for the winter is high and that as much of this as possible is "off the ground" engaging white muscle. Make sure that you keep the pressure on.
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