Rethinking the Schedule
I may make a change to the new schedule to try to space my speed components out a little better, and to get all of my running into the mornings, when its cooler. This is what I’m looking at right now, but I’m still playing with it:
| Morning (6am) | Lunch | Evening (varies) | |
| Monday: | lower body gym | - | spin class |
| Tuesday: | 7 mile easy run | - | 90 minute elliptical |
| Wednesday: | 7 mile speedwork | - | - |
| Thursday: | 3 mile easy run | - | 90 minute elliptical |
| Friday: | - | upper body gym | spin class, bodypump class |
| Saturday: | 9:30 pace long run | - | - |
| Sunday: | 8:15 race pace run | - | - |
I like that one better the more I think about it. It might make scheduling sense to drop my midday upper body workout, but that’s more of a social thing - replacing lunch on Fridays with some nice, solid weights and good conversation with friends. Maybe we’ll move it to Friday mornings or something, although getting to that particular gym early in the morning could be a pain, just because of traffic.
Either way that would give me no running at all on Mondays and Fridays, and a full recovery day between each speed session apart from the gap from the pace run early Sunday to the spin class on Monday evening - which is pretty decent by itself. I think this could be workable.
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Nov 1st 2004
7:58 PM
Richard,
I know that Higdon probably has those race pace runs the day before or after the long runs, but you might consider putting a rest/recovery day between those two workouts, so that you can give them both a good solid effort. Spacing those two hard workouts apart will also help you avoid injury issues, and will help you finish both workouts stronger.