Hi ST!
Early on, while I was just running, I learned the hard way to keep the easy days easy and the hard days hard. Back then I never did more than one workout per day. I've kept this philosophy in triathlon training, and often I'll do something like an easy morning run and a hard evening bike, or similar. I'll repeat this for most days, and 2 days per week will be total rest or just one easy workout.
But listening to a podcast a few days ago (I think it was ATC on Endurance Planet), someone mentioned that focus should be on days, not workouts. In this case, you might do a hard run in the morning and a hard bike in the evening, and the following day you do easy workouts both morning and evening.
Initial thoughts: might help recovery, since you get more time for recovery. But the quality of hard workout #2 in a day may suffer. And recovery needed from a hard day should increase?
Anyway, does anyone follow something like this? Have tried it? Thoughts?
Early on, while I was just running, I learned the hard way to keep the easy days easy and the hard days hard. Back then I never did more than one workout per day. I've kept this philosophy in triathlon training, and often I'll do something like an easy morning run and a hard evening bike, or similar. I'll repeat this for most days, and 2 days per week will be total rest or just one easy workout.
But listening to a podcast a few days ago (I think it was ATC on Endurance Planet), someone mentioned that focus should be on days, not workouts. In this case, you might do a hard run in the morning and a hard bike in the evening, and the following day you do easy workouts both morning and evening.
Initial thoughts: might help recovery, since you get more time for recovery. But the quality of hard workout #2 in a day may suffer. And recovery needed from a hard day should increase?
Anyway, does anyone follow something like this? Have tried it? Thoughts?