Tomorrow is 3 weeks out from Muncie. Life and training has gone exceptionally well this year. Feeling strong and the possibility of knocking 20 mins or more off the PR is looking good. I’m at the end of an ambitious training cycle and feeling it. Rest intervals between 100’s this morning kept getting longer and longer. Tomorrow I planned for a 5/50/5 RBR brick to work on pace and nutrition, my limiters. The heat-humidity-ozone pump is running full bore. Hottest day in 3 years is expected tomorrow. We've had liitle chance to accilimate. I plan to go out early and get this done by noon so I should beat the heat. Yet, because of feeling a bit tapped tomorrow feels like even going “easy” could be hard.
My thought is to pace the brick to finish it. I place a lot of emphasis on dosing my training based on the ability to recover. I’m willing to dig deep enough to need a 2 day recovery but that’s my limit. Tough to gauge I know but that’s the plan. Or, just dig as deep as needed to get the job done and adjust the remaining training as needed to get to the line ready to go. What say you?
My thought is to pace the brick to finish it. I place a lot of emphasis on dosing my training based on the ability to recover. I’m willing to dig deep enough to need a 2 day recovery but that’s my limit. Tough to gauge I know but that’s the plan. Or, just dig as deep as needed to get the job done and adjust the remaining training as needed to get to the line ready to go. What say you?