24-08-2012, 11:59 AM
That's a very thoughtful and wise piece of advice, thank you very much for sharing your experience with me and providing with good advise as always :notworthy:
Well, I'd rather prefer to stick for now with the cycles but just not putting much pressure in the key sessions, I think that may be it's the only thing I need for now because I can't say that I feel physically jaded, maybe not in best shape, but that's more on numbers than anything. Yesterday I did the 30' easy with 1' fast-slow on the mill and despite the HR was still a little bit higher than some weeks ago, I felt pretty well and ended the session with good feelings. Today morning HR went back for the 1st time in 10 days to under 50 with avg 46 min 43, pretty good, weight also settling into low 62, so I guess that things are starting to fall back in their place again.
Also, I'd like to recover some sessions I did some time ago like the billat 30"-30" and 1'-1' or just 30' on progression on the mill, which are dynamic and more enjoyable, starting long and slow runs for a build up right now I think that it would work even worse from a mentally point of view, moreover when this next weekend I'm starting to race, it would feel a little bit awkward.
Today I'm going to spend the weekend on the town where I used to spend summer holidays on my teenager days, I also started doing some of the first runs there. Tomorrow is for spending time with girlfriend and friends on the beach and the bar but for Sunday I plan to go early on the morning for a semi long run, I kind of feel like I want to do it, maybe just nostalgy, but I'm looking forward to it.
Next Sunday I have a 2100m flat race and then the next two weekends a very fast 10K each, so 3 weeks in a row racing.
If I were to choose, I think I would start this next week with the first week of the cycle so it fits pretty well for being rested enough for the 3rd one on the 16th September which I guess is the key one, although the one on the 9th September is also important, I got sub 37 there for the first time after lot of hard work and it's special and would like to run a decent race (although I promise not to be very hard on myself if it's not the case
)
Also, this fall will be pretty intense with 10ks, so I was planning to stick with the cycles until, I guess, late November-early December when I think it will be a perfect time for a small off-period and/or build up because I will start to change goals and look to train for one pendant assignment: the sub 80' half-marathon on January-February.
What do you think?
Onwards and forwards
Well, I'd rather prefer to stick for now with the cycles but just not putting much pressure in the key sessions, I think that may be it's the only thing I need for now because I can't say that I feel physically jaded, maybe not in best shape, but that's more on numbers than anything. Yesterday I did the 30' easy with 1' fast-slow on the mill and despite the HR was still a little bit higher than some weeks ago, I felt pretty well and ended the session with good feelings. Today morning HR went back for the 1st time in 10 days to under 50 with avg 46 min 43, pretty good, weight also settling into low 62, so I guess that things are starting to fall back in their place again.
Also, I'd like to recover some sessions I did some time ago like the billat 30"-30" and 1'-1' or just 30' on progression on the mill, which are dynamic and more enjoyable, starting long and slow runs for a build up right now I think that it would work even worse from a mentally point of view, moreover when this next weekend I'm starting to race, it would feel a little bit awkward.
Today I'm going to spend the weekend on the town where I used to spend summer holidays on my teenager days, I also started doing some of the first runs there. Tomorrow is for spending time with girlfriend and friends on the beach and the bar but for Sunday I plan to go early on the morning for a semi long run, I kind of feel like I want to do it, maybe just nostalgy, but I'm looking forward to it.
Next Sunday I have a 2100m flat race and then the next two weekends a very fast 10K each, so 3 weeks in a row racing.
If I were to choose, I think I would start this next week with the first week of the cycle so it fits pretty well for being rested enough for the 3rd one on the 16th September which I guess is the key one, although the one on the 9th September is also important, I got sub 37 there for the first time after lot of hard work and it's special and would like to run a decent race (although I promise not to be very hard on myself if it's not the case
)Also, this fall will be pretty intense with 10ks, so I was planning to stick with the cycles until, I guess, late November-early December when I think it will be a perfect time for a small off-period and/or build up because I will start to change goals and look to train for one pendant assignment: the sub 80' half-marathon on January-February.
What do you think?
Onwards and forwards