12-06-2012, 10:48 AM
Hehe, thank you very much TheEd for being so accessible and always willing to provide advice 
Ok, with Sunday's 10K one of the three leagues I'm enrolled came to an end. I placed 18th on the general classification and 9th for my age group, out of a few thousand people, not that bad This leagues reward a mix between fitness and consistency, racing as many races as possible on the calendar (best 7 of 12 most famous races in Barcelona from September to June).
The other two leagues have a yearly basis, that means they go from January to December. For one of this leagues, the 'Lliga Championchip' I'm a little way ahead because I have only ran one race that scores double out of the 6 possible. I have plenty of time to catch up until December, but there is one race in 1st of July that could have fit perfectly into the 3 week cycles, so I thought that I could perform one more cycle before ending the season.
I was exactly thinking of doing the off-period and build-up, but for now I don't feel I have been long enough since we started with the cycles after the marathon (2 months more or less I guess?) and I feel like I still have energy and motivation to do one more cycle, and that would suit to end with this race on 1st July.
But the problem here is that I have made my calculus and if I were to do that, I could only barely perform two cycles of the 10K training program before reaching the first races on September. This races are pretty important for me, because last year I ran this last Sunday's race with a 37:45 and swear that I would train hard during the summer to get under 37 for the first time and I achieved it on September (36:46 and 36:09!!), so it was a great moment for me and I'd like to repeat this once again (probably aiming once and for all at sub 36 this time). That's why I think that maybe it could be better to start right now with the off-period and forget about this last 10K, even if I feel like I still want to train. This way I would run the 1st race on 2nd week of the 3rd cycle and next race that is one week after in the end of the 3rd cycle (it's a pity there are only 7 days apart one from the other but last year worked pretty well).
Which approach do you think that would be most benefiting?
Ok, with Sunday's 10K one of the three leagues I'm enrolled came to an end. I placed 18th on the general classification and 9th for my age group, out of a few thousand people, not that bad
This leagues reward a mix between fitness and consistency, racing as many races as possible on the calendar (best 7 of 12 most famous races in Barcelona from September to June).The other two leagues have a yearly basis, that means they go from January to December. For one of this leagues, the 'Lliga Championchip' I'm a little way ahead because I have only ran one race that scores double out of the 6 possible. I have plenty of time to catch up until December, but there is one race in 1st of July that could have fit perfectly into the 3 week cycles, so I thought that I could perform one more cycle before ending the season.
I was exactly thinking of doing the off-period and build-up, but for now I don't feel I have been long enough since we started with the cycles after the marathon (2 months more or less I guess?) and I feel like I still have energy and motivation to do one more cycle, and that would suit to end with this race on 1st July.
But the problem here is that I have made my calculus and if I were to do that, I could only barely perform two cycles of the 10K training program before reaching the first races on September. This races are pretty important for me, because last year I ran this last Sunday's race with a 37:45 and swear that I would train hard during the summer to get under 37 for the first time and I achieved it on September (36:46 and 36:09!!), so it was a great moment for me and I'd like to repeat this once again (probably aiming once and for all at sub 36 this time). That's why I think that maybe it could be better to start right now with the off-period and forget about this last 10K, even if I feel like I still want to train. This way I would run the 1st race on 2nd week of the 3rd cycle and next race that is one week after in the end of the 3rd cycle (it's a pity there are only 7 days apart one from the other but last year worked pretty well).
Which approach do you think that would be most benefiting?