When I write training plans for runners, I ask them for the holidays, weekends away and busy weeks they’ve got in their personal life over the months ahead. Because if you’re gong to tick off all your runs, a bit of forward planning and a realistic approach to run-life balance is needed.
In the run up to Manchester in 2013, one week I did all my runs for the week by Friday morning so I could go away for my birthday for the weekend. I wouldn’t recommend this approach to training.
Post long run sweaty smugness
For the next couple of weeks I’m away for the weekend so fitting in a longer run will be a challenge. So, as last weekend’s race meant I’d effectively done my tempo effort on Saturday, it made sense to keep this structure to my running for the next few weeks.
This week I did my long run on Thursday and a tempo run on Sunday. Moving things about in this way takes some forward planning. You can’t get to Sunday morning and then move your long run back in time. And doing two long runs too close together can mean you’re overdoing it.
As most people find the main reason for missing a session is lack of time (and a big factor in getting injured is doing too much on tired legs), a bit of forward planning really helps.
Next time you sit down to plan your training cycle for a race, pull out your calendar, be realistic about what impact the fun things in life will have on training and be creative when you try to make it all work together.
This week’s miles
Start/finish of my 350m efforts
Tuesday – 12x350m – the session I cut short with a bad back last week. 350m instead of 400m because there’s a loop by my flat that size.
Thursday – paced long run, 12 miles at 8:18/mile
Saturday – 3 mile easy run
Sunday – tempo run, 8 miles with 2×2 miles @7:15
Total: 33 miles
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