Race schedule:
Already done in the past three weeks:
3k time trial
800 time trial
Mile time trial
400 time trial
Upcoming in the next four weeks:
5k road race
5k or 5mile road race
5k or 10k road race
5k or 10k road race
I'm in the best shape of my life and things are just starting up again after COVID, so I want to capitalize. I plan to be pretty conservative on all my workouts the next four weeks.
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That’s a normal 8 week block for Yuki
It's probably not ideal. But it's fine. you would be better off training and keeping miles up. But high school kids go far beyond this type of schedule and they do well.
if you trained through and still kept your intense mileage at high enough levels, no problem, especially with some of those TTs being shorter distances. I would train through the first couple 5ks and ratchet down for the last two.
However it goes, you will learn something from it. some people thrive from constant racing. Maybe you will be one of them.
First four: Yes. It's not common, but some high school runners will do all four of those events in one meet.
Last four: Not really, if they're supposed to be all-out efforts. You'll need to prioritize which races you taper for, and prepare to taper more and recover longer for the longer distances than the 5Ks. If you're young and some of the races are hard tempo efforts, you'll be okay.
high school xc coach wrote:
It's probably not ideal. But it's fine. you would be better off training and keeping miles up. But high school kids go far beyond this type of schedule and they do well.
if you trained through and still kept your intense mileage at high enough levels, no problem, especially with some of those TTs being shorter distances. I would train through the first couple 5ks and ratchet down for the last two.
However it goes, you will learn something from it. some people thrive from constant racing. Maybe you will be one of them.
Agreed. In HS we were racing 2-3 events on Wednesday and 2-3 events on Saturday during the track season.
I would try to be very specific with your race goals for the 5Ks. Something beyond, "run as quickly as possible." Maybe one race it's to start conservatively and try to run a big negative split, maybe another it's in a race you think you can place highly and you just run for place, not time. Every race is a bit of an experiment, so controlling as much as you can about the execution can make it easier for you to come out of the race with something to gauge outside of just the final time.