CONSIDERING YOUR TRAINING OPPORTUNITY

Consider your Training Opportunity

Before designing your week to week program, consider the following;

• Your running maturing – years of healthy running.

• Your goals for the event – compete or complete.

• The training time of day best matching your lifestyle.

• Recovery strategy – particularly post-training nutrition.

• A training partner or solo training.

• Is indoor training a choice?

• Do you have hills, locally?

• Do you have grassy parks, locally?

Classic Training Plans

Experience has me favouring the following programming principles;

• 4/7 Training sessions

• 1 Hilly session

• 1 Testing Session – TT

• 1 Grassy (or treadmill) ‘effort’ session

• 1 The longer session, usually on the weekend

• A day off between the weekday sessions (T, T, S, S)

• Train in the morning

• Throw in 5-10 minutes of strength exercises 2-3/7