Like everything else, life gets in the way. That's OK. My principles of training don't forget about the unexpected things that might be thrown my way. And don't forget that the training volume that I set is what I hopeto do in a week. Sometimes I don't achieve that goal. That's where feedback comes in. If life gets in the way or I start to overtrain, then I scale back the numbers for the next mesocycle.
So here I'm presented with a travel date from Wednesday to Saturday. I can probably only run during those times. Therefore, a modification of my mesocycle needs to take place.
Tomorrow will be a 10 mile run from Staten Island to Journal Square. That was originally on the schedule and will still be there. I plan to keep the other key workout, the 15 mile ultra-style run, on Sunday. The rest of the week will be a short active rest consisting of daily runs within the 4 to 7 mile range. This shorter rest period will be brought forth from the 4th week recovery week the next week. I will do a couple of harder workouts within the 4th week, but will end the week with another rest period before the next Mesocycle begins to get a good recovery.
Sound confusing? Well, to keep it simple, I'm taking a whole week of active rest and splitting them into 2 smaller periods. That should make it clear.
The 2 runs mentioned above are 2 Key Workouts. The last two, a bike and swim, will happen next week.
Here goes...
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