I’m in high school, and how it works in my state is State is Saturday 11/4, and sectionals (state qualifier), is Wednesday 10/25. What do I do in terms of training between these races? My last workout will be the Tuesday of state week, so do I throw in an extra workout the Friday or Saturday after the Wednesday race? Pls help!
You should do 2 workouts in between; one on the Saturday and one on the Tuesday or Wednesday.
The key with tapering is to reduce volume, not intensity. If you leave it a week between faster efforts, then you'll likely feel sluggish on race day.
I'd suggest just doing workouts that are about 2/3rds the volume of what you would usually do. That is, if you typically do a 6 x 800m workout, then reduce to 4 x 800m.
It's probably best to keep these workouts controlled though.
First what have you been doing for training? I do like doing a short threshold workout Saturday then the 800s tuesday before states. I would take 5min rest though to give pretty much full recovery. 800s starting at 5k pace down to 3k pace.
citius5000 wrote:
First what have you been doing for training? I do like doing a short threshold workout Saturday then the 800s tuesday before states. I would take 5min rest though to give pretty much full recovery. 800s starting at 5k pace down to 3k pace.
I’m a junior, and my mileage has mostly been in the low-mid 40s throughout the season itself, with Tuesday/Friday workouts, sat. Long run. Very strength based program. Thank you so much for the help
Can't really gain fitness in between. Dk if you need two workouts. Coming off of the first race, I would be careful doing something hard. Would do threshold/tempo work if you're going to do something -- maybe even just a gentle progression in your (reduced) long run. Then some intensity mid-week is fine but it should be nothing close to your biggest workouts. Do you have a coach writing these workouts?
Do you have a coach? Probably listen to them.