Monday, November 30, 2015

Sketch

 This is a partial roughed out 24 week run schedule for my 2016. I will be biking, lifting and swimming too but I will place the focus on running until the weather gets better.


 I will always be far more fluid with a schedule because you/ we can't predict how a single one of those days will go or how we'll feel, this just allows for a big picture view. I base every schedule on life's schedule first and then plug in the training around that. Tuesday and Friday are my more open days so I put my key sessions there, plus that allows 2 days of recovery/ easy after Tuesday's harder run. I know that I have a ~48 hour lag in fatigue, meaning I generally feel good the day after a hard run, like crap 2 days after, and good on the 3rd day. An example of how I'll be fluid here is that if I feel good on Wednesday I won't be afraid to trade with Friday. And if I feel like crap on Friday then I know I can bump the hard run to Saturday and still feel OK for Sunday's longer run.
 All of this is assuming that I don't have my somewhat typical bi-polar episodes and I retire again. That's a real possibility. I'm hoping that sketching this out and getting into a regular routine again will help me stick with it. And if it does then I'll race this year. We'll see.    

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