I couldn't find a thread here for those who follow Dr Phil's philosophy so I thought I'd start one.
For those who haven't read it The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing is a good start, or just google.
For those who are here, adn came from that other place, why not tell us what you've been doing.
For me, I spent September to Christmas building my aerobic base. Running, rowing and cycling with HR no higher than 148 (or at least not intentionally so). I had a 10km race on New Year's Eve, which had me a little worried about losing my top end speed.
I ran a PB by 1:20 secs in 44:15.
I then ran a 19:58 5km, which predicts a 10km time under 42 mins. Obviously I held onto and improved my top end as well as building the base.
That really sold it to me, even if I was a believer before.
I then went back to a shorter base building period to mid Feb when I started to build some harder efforts into my running and cycling on shorter workouts. For me, the cycling club TT season starts in April, so I'm now doing long, sub maximal intervals on the turbo trainer one a week, and a coupel of shorter runs above 148bpm. Long runs and rides are still aimed at the 148 bpm cap as the intention with these is to build towards regular 3 hour sessions as I head towards a 70 mile ultra in July, plus a couple of HMs through the year and maybe another winter HM.
Over to you.
For those who haven't read it The Big Book of Endurance Training and Racing is a good start, or just google.
For those who are here, adn came from that other place, why not tell us what you've been doing.
For me, I spent September to Christmas building my aerobic base. Running, rowing and cycling with HR no higher than 148 (or at least not intentionally so). I had a 10km race on New Year's Eve, which had me a little worried about losing my top end speed.
I ran a PB by 1:20 secs in 44:15.
I then ran a 19:58 5km, which predicts a 10km time under 42 mins. Obviously I held onto and improved my top end as well as building the base.
That really sold it to me, even if I was a believer before.
I then went back to a shorter base building period to mid Feb when I started to build some harder efforts into my running and cycling on shorter workouts. For me, the cycling club TT season starts in April, so I'm now doing long, sub maximal intervals on the turbo trainer one a week, and a coupel of shorter runs above 148bpm. Long runs and rides are still aimed at the 148 bpm cap as the intention with these is to build towards regular 3 hour sessions as I head towards a 70 mile ultra in July, plus a couple of HMs through the year and maybe another winter HM.
Over to you.