I’ve come up with a two week training cycle. I’m very excited about it, because it incorporates what I learned from my training this fall into a two week cycle. The problem with a weekly cycle is that there is an odd number of days in the week, so I would always make compromises that were not listening to my body. Here are the requirements I gave myself.
- three types of days: easy, hard, hard cross-training, long
- long must be on a weekend
- long is preceded by one easy day
- long is followed by two easy days
- incorporate some hard cross-training
- hard cross-training days can be followed by hard running days
- 1/2 the days are hard/hard ct/long, other 1/2 are easy
I thought the pattern would take more that two weeks to start cycling, so I’m very happy that it is as simple as it is.
– Week 1
- Mon Easy
- Tue Hard CT
- Wed Hard
- Thu Easy
- Fri Hard
- Sat Easy
- Sun Long
– Week 2
- Mon Easy
- Tue Easy
- Wed Hard CT
- Thu Hard
- Fri Easy
- Sat Long
- Sun Easy
Hard days can be intervals or tempo runs. Easy days can be complete rest, walk, hike, or gym for 40 mins at 130 HR.
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